On Sunday, February 24, 2013 3:51:09 PM UTC-8, Demian Brecht wrote:
> For the record, I completely misread and misunderstood the question. I
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> should stop posting that late at night :P
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> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Demian Brecht <demianbre...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Rather than using a relative path, try using
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> > webbrowser.open('{}/documentation/help.html'.format(os.path.dirname(__file__))).
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> > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:17 AM, llanitedave <llanited...@veawb.coop> wrote:
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> >> I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in
> >> a documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page.
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> >> On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my
> >> default browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet
> >> Explorer, which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight to
> >> the web and does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise.
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> >> My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting
> >> undermined right from the start.
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> >> How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows?
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> > Demian Brecht
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> Demian Brecht
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> http://demianbrecht.github.com
Well, between you and Chris, I think you've got me on the right track. If
things keep going like they are now, I should have it back under control in an
hour or two.
So, thanks in advance for all of you!
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