Jorgen Grahn wrote: > [desktop module]
> Note that those do not, of course, work on all Unices. Correct: they work only for the stated desktop environments. > On my machines, there is One Correct Way of doing these things, and that's > to look in the MIME support/configuration files (~/.mailcap, and so on), > first for the user, then system-wide. Something there might tell you what > program should handle text/html content. Indeed. Thanks for reminding me about mailcap/metamail - I used them in a project about ten years ago, and I suppose not having any opportunities to use them in the intervening period probably pushed them to the back of my mind. > This mechanism is widespread under Unix, I think ... but I don't know if > there is a general interface to it, or a Python interface. Here's an example: import mailcap command, entry = mailcap.findmatch(mailcap.getcaps(), "text/html") Here's another more comprehensive set of examples: http://effbot.org/librarybook/mailcap.htm Sadly, when considering my KDE desktop's default browser, inquiring the application for HTML files yields Mozilla Firefox from my mailcap file. What I've discovered is that the issue of an URL-opening application is often quite separate from an appropriate application to open a file of a given type. Perhaps I should call desktop.open something like desktop.urlopen instead, since that name arguably describes the purpose of the function more accurately. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
