How to launch a browser window

Cameron Laird claird at lairds.com
Mon Dec 30 21:06:39 EST 2002


In article <mailman.1041276377.23112.python-list at python.org>,
Cliff Wells  <clifford.wells at attbi.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 06:31, A wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Can you let me know please how I can
>>  launch, from Python, a web browser window without any toolbars and menus?
>
>Without any toolbars and menus?  *If* your browser supports that, then
>you could use os.system to launch the browser with the appropriate
>command line options.  Alternatively, you could use something like the
>wxHtmlWindow from wxPython, but it isn't a full-fledged browser and
>won't display many sites correctly.
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My summary:  it's possible, in principal, but 
involves rather sordid intimacy with the too-
poorly-documented details of individual
browsers.  There are experts in such matters.
comp.lang.python isn't a particularly likely
place to find them.
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