[Tutor] How to print the installed web browser

[Steve Willoughby]

On 01-Sep-10 13:10, Mark Weil wrote:
> Not perfect, but you could check for each browser's binary.
>
> import os
> os.path.isfile("/usr/bin/firefox")

You'd probably be better off at least looking at the user's PATH 
variable, which would likely catch platform variations in where the 
browser would be located, and catch local installations by that user. 
Of course, you're still playing a guessing game of what to even look for 
or what the browser binary is called.  Maybe it's 
/usr/local/bin/firefox3, for example.