How to start up the default web browser on win32

[seanb at home.com]

On  1 Mar, T. C. Huang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>      I want to write a python script to start up the default web browser
> on Win32 platform. I'm not
> familiar with Win32, anyone can help me?
> 
> T. C. Huang
> 

The easiest way I know of is to use the windows "start" command (which
launches a program or opens a document in the associated program) to
open a url.  For example:

>>import os
>>my_url = 'http://www.python.org/'
>>os.system('start %s' % my_url)
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Sean Blakey
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quine = ['print "quine =",quine,"; exec(quine[0])"']; exec(quine[0])