Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment:
Updated docs in r71150.
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Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment:
I'm inclined not to document that. webbrowser is meant for URLs, the
behavior if you call it with file names is undefined.
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Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment:
That would be nice.
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New submission from Mitchell Model m...@acm.org:
There is a problem with the documentation of the webbrowser module:
opening a URL doesn't necessarily open it in a browser. The
documentation of the open function and method should say that the URL is
opened in whatever application the system
