[Python-Dev] weird webbrowser behavior

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Thu, 31 May 2001 16:08:21 -0400


Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>:
> I think webbrowser should either ignore elements of BROWSER if
> they have not previously been registered (and can't be found by _iscommand)
> or try to register them using GenericBrowser.  Users are apparently not the
> only people setting BROWSER, so the comment in the code:

Fred Drake and I are co-responsible for that code.  If you want to patch it
to do this, I won't object.
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