os.startfile / webbrowser + Firefox

[Matthias Huening]

Ubergeek <geekspeak at hotpop.com> wrote in
news:mailman.76.1089217952.5135.python-list at python.org: 

> I'm afraid I missed the start of the discussion, but has the
> following been tried?
> 
>      import webbrowser
>      webbrowser.open_new("http://www.python.org")

Yes. The webbrowser module returns the same error message (which - as 
Martin pointed out - isn't surprising, because it uses os.startfile).

Matthias