webbrowser.py

[Oleg Broytmann]

Hello!

   I have minor problem with the webbrowser.py module and BROWSER
environment variable. Under XWindows I set this variable to

BROWSER="/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla -remote \"openURL(%s,new-window)\":\
/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla %s"

   The problem is that when webbrowser.py sees %s in that variable, it does
not instantiate correct class - instead it creates GenericBrowser.

   But this is wrong! Class Netscape from webbrowser starts a browser if it
is not already running, but GenericBrowser does not start it!

   To overcome the problem I have to del os.environ["BROWSER"]! This is
certainly not the way ESR intended things to be.

   I think webbrowser.py must run through browsers defined in BROWSER
environment variable and stop at the first that returns 0 as error code.

Oleg.
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