On 1/4/2017 4:32 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> My original question was whether python had anything to provide this
> functionality, and the answer appears to be a resounding NO!!!
I would say 'Yes, but with user effort'.
To have a string interpreted as a clickable link, you send the string to
software capable of creating a clickable link, plus the information
'this is a clickable link'*. There are two ways to tag a string as a
link. One is to use markup around the url in the string itself.
'<url>' and html are example. Python provides multiple to make this
easy. The other is to tag the string with a separate argument. Python provides
tkinter, which wraps tk Text widgets, which have a powerful tag system. One
can define a Link tag that will a) cause text to be displayed, for instance,
blue and underlined and b) cause clicks on the text to generate a web request.
One could then use
mytext.insert('insert', 'http://www.example.com', Link)
Browser must do something similar when they encounter when they encounter html
link tags.
* If the software directly recognizes a bare url such as
'http://www.example.com' as a link, without further indication, then it
should have a way to disable conversion to a clickable link.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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