New submission from Dan O'Reilly: Currently, when webbrowser.get() is passed a "using" argument that consists of a command line string like "C:\Users\dan\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe %s", it will use shlex.split(command_line) to tokenize the string. However, when given Windows-style path separators (as is likely to be the case on Windows), shlex.split returns the path with all the separators removed:
>>> cmd = >>> "C:\\Users\\oreild1\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe >>> %s" >>> shlex.split(cmd) ['C:Usersoreild1AppDataLocalGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe', '%s'] Of course, this means the browser object returned is useless. I'm not sure what the preferred way to fix this is: either document that POSIX-style path separators are required (even on Windows), or pass posix=False to shlex.split if we're running Windows. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 223606 nosy: dan.oreilly priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: webbrowser.get(command_line) does not support Windows-style path separators type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22025> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
