webbrowser.open works in IDLE and cmd shell but not from cygwin prompt

[Steve Holden]

Gregory Bloom wrote:
> On Apr 27, 3:12 am, Michael Hoffman <cam.ac... at mh391.invalid> wrote:
>>> And, more to the point, how can I use webbrowser from scripts launched under
>>  > cygwin?
>>
>> If you're using native Windows Python as you seem to be, try
>> webbrowser.get("windows-default").open_new(url)
>>
>> If you want to use Cygwin Python instead, I submitted a patch more than
>> 1.5 years ago to allow it, but it hasn't been reviewed:
>>
>> http://python.org/sf/1244861
>> --
>> Michael Hoffman
> 
> 
> Awesome!  That works perfectly.  Thanks.
> 
> 
Interestingly when I tried this under Cygwin I got the links browser 
displaying the material from the given URL.

That's different enough that I might keep it like that.:-)

regards
  Steve
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