Re: [issue10799] Improve webbrowser.open doc (and, someday, behavior?)

2011-01-24 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:23:31AM +, Éric Araujo wrote: > > I thought of adding 'http://' if not present but that would > > disable opening files in a file browser. > > I think that’s a Windows-specific behavior, not a promise of the > *web*browser module. If being lenient with URLs which do

[issue10799] Improve webbrowser.open doc (and, someday, behavior?)

2011-01-11 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: > I thought of adding 'http://' if not present but that would disable opening > files in a file browser. I think that’s a Windows-specific behavior, not a promise of the *web*browser module. -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___

[issue10799] Improve webbrowser.open doc (and, someday, behavior?)

2010-12-30 Thread Terry J. Reedy
New submission from Terry J. Reedy : webbrowser.open (and two aliases): 1. document return value, which seems to be: True if a browser tab or window is opened, regardless of whether or not the url is found; False otherwise. 2. document that (on Windows, at least) the default browser only gets