Bugs item #1338995, was opened at 2005-10-26 16:08 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by gregcouch You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1338995&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Library Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Greg Couch (gregcouch) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: CVS webbrowser.py (1.40) bugs Initial Comment: There are two calls to _safequote that are only made on darwin, aka, Mac OS X. That function is missing. And the UnixBrowser is missing an & in the "simpler command" and thus causes python to hang until the browser is exited (if it wasn't running already). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Greg Couch (gregcouch) Date: 2005-10-28 11:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=131838 So you really want to change existing practice and break all Python GUI programs that invoke webbrowser.open? And the Elinks example proves my point. What is the point of it being a UnixBrowser, in the terminal window, if you can't send remote commands to it (because the Python GUI application is blocked until the browser exits)? Tty-based browsers are nice for completeness, but are really a last resort for a Python application, and imply that no windowing system is available (i.e, remotely logged in and not forwarding X connections, so not running GUI applications either). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Oleg Broytmann (phd) Date: 2005-10-28 04:56 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=4799 No, I still think it is a bad idea to put a generic Unix browser to background by default. If you want to do it - do it explicitly. Start a browser in a background yourself, and use remote actions from the module to open new windows/tabs. Or register another browser, with different .open() and/or ._remote(). And, BTW, Elinks is a subclass of UnixBrowser, not GenericBrowser. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Greg Couch (gregcouch) Date: 2005-10-27 10:35 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=131838 And I don't want starting up firefox to hang my python GUI either. So, if you look at the code more closely, lynx/links/elinks subclass from GenericBrowser not UnixBrowser, so adding the & to UnixBrowser is the correct thing to do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Oleg Broytmann (phd) Date: 2005-10-27 08:36 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=4799 Yes, _safequote() call seems like a bug. A leftover after I've merged a half dozens of patches into this one. Should be removed. But there should certainly be no '&'. You certainly dont want to start lynx/links/elinks in the background, do you?! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1338995&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
