[issue45589] webbrowser does not handle opens under Windows WSL properly

[Guido F]

Guido F <guido.fioravantti at gmail.com> added the comment:

My code patch uses ‘wslview’, which is a binary that is injected into every
WSL distro and forwards file open commands to windows.

I detect WSL inspecting the kernel version, which includes WSL tagging.

On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 3:05 PM Steve Dower <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> added the comment:
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> We don't formally support it yet. We probably need somebody to develop
> expertise in the emulation layer so that they can work with the Linux
> distro experts to make sure their distros are doing things properly.
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> It has no relation at all to our Windows support (right now) - all
> versions of Python running in WSL 100% believe they are running on
> whichever Linux distro the user is running.
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