Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> writes: > On 11/11/2014 05:08 PM, Ben Finney wrote: >> Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> writes: >> >>> My wife (using a Win7 machine) will be on a web page that has a link >>> to mail somebody. She clicks on it, and it opens the currently >>> installed but unused Thunderbird. >>> >>> Ideally, what would happen is a new window/tab would open to gmail >>> with a new compose window with the email address in place and the >>> cursor in the subject line. >> >> What is the Python question? I can't see anywhere that you would be >> using Python code to address this. > > Really? Huh. > > Okay, the explicit Python question: Clicking on a mail link in a web > browser can start an external program. I would like that external > program to be a Python script that: opens a new tab in the currently > running browser (or a new default browser window), loads up the > default web mail client (or one specified if there is no way to > know/have a default), navigates to the compose pane (or starts there > if possible), enters in the email address from the link that was > passed to it, and, if not too much more, move the cursor to the > subject field. > > Surely this can be done in Python. > Related question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14288177/interact-with-other-programs-using-python
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