Cross Platform Browser Launcher

[Fuzzyman]

Pieter Claerhout <Pieter.Claerhout at Creo.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.898.1075281737.12720.python-list at python.org>...
> Take a look at the webbrowser module...
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-webbrowser.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 

Great - looks good.

Thanks

Fuzzy

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: michael at foord.net [mailto:michael at foord.net] 
> Sent: 28 January 2004 10:18
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Cross Platform Browser Launcher
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> 
> I've written a simple application in python with an HTML help file.
> 
> I'm looking for a cross platform way of launching the help file.
> 
> On windows I'd use :
> os.system('start help.html')
> 
> Which automatically opens the file with the users browser.
> 
> Is there a cross-platform way of doing the same thing ? 
> I can do a platform test and use different techniques for different
> systems - but I don't know how to achieve the same effect on a Linux
> (Unix ? Mac ?) machine.....
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Fuzzy
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