Like webbrowser for MS html help?

[brueckd at tbye.com]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Edward K. Ream wrote:

> I would like to open a compiled MS HTML help file from a Tkinter app. Does
> anyone have example code showing how to do this?
> 
> With URL's this is so easy:
> 
> import webbrowser
> webbrowser.open(my_url)
> 
> Is there anything similar for MS HTML help viewer?

This works (on my system at least):

os.system('start thefile.chm')

i.e. - just launch the file and let Windows take care of the rest.

-Dave