Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: >> dependencies: + Finding programs in PATH, adding shutil.which > Why did you add this dependency? For example, subprocess is able to > locate a program if the program has no full path. We don't need a > which function.
While the Windows API call is part of Windows and the open program always present on Mac OS X, xdg-open is an optional program on free OSes, so I thought we’d need shutil.which to look before we leap. The alternative is to call Popen(['xdg-open', etc.]) and check if we get ENOENT, but I don’t know if this would be non-ambiguous (for example, do we get ENOENT if xdg-open exists but not the file?). A related question: what to do when we’re not on Windows nor Mac and xdg-open doesn’t exist? Raise NotImplemented? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3177> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
