New submission from Ilya Grigoriev <ily...@gmail.com>:
The object `webbrowser.get()` returns has, and had for a long time, a useful but undocumented field `name`. I wonder if it would be OK to document it as something like `a system-dependent name for the browser`. This would go here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/webbrowser.html#browser-controller-objects The reason I'd like this is so that I can write code like the following: ```python # In Crostini Chrome OS Linux, the default browser is set to an # intermediary called `garcon-url-handler`. # It opens URLs in Chrome running outside the linux VM. This # browser does not have access to the Linux filesystem. Some references: # https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/master/vm_tools/garcon/#opening-urls # https://source.chromium.org/search?q=garcon-url-handler if "garcon-url-handler" in webbrowser.get().name: webbrowser.open("http://external-url.com/docs.html";) else: webbrowser.open("file:///usr/share/doc/docs.html") ``` This would work correctly, even if the user has installed a browser native to the Linux VM and put it into their `BROWSER` environment variable. I don't know a better way to achieve the same effect. Some references to where the `name` field was introduced: https://bugs.python.org/issue754022 https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e8f244305ef4f257f6999b69601f4316b31faa5e ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, Library (Lib) messages: 388218 nosy: docs@python, ilyagr priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Document the `controller.name` field in `webbrowser` module type: enhancement versions: Python 3.10 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43424> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
