opening a file opens it in Notepad

[Lance]

Thanks all for the solution.....indeed I had "from webbrowser import open"
in my code....

Lance


"Lance" <lbrannma at cablespeed.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I'm running PythonWin build 148 on Windows XP.
>
> The following results in the file being opened in Notepad! This confuses
me
> greatly. I simply want the file handle. My next line is to read the file
> into a string, using f1.read()
> Any suggestions will be appreciated.
>
> Also, I have a number of files in srcfiles. I imagine I must issue
> f1.close() each time in the loop, yes?
>
> for file in srcfiles:
>         f1 = open(file,"r")
>         ... do stuff...
>
> Thanks,
> Lance
>
>