webbrowser.open question force Firefox

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On Aug 6, 5:42 am, Thomas Jollans <tho... at jollans.com> wrote:
> On Monday 06 August 2007, dimitri pater wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have a question regarding the use of webbrowser.open.
> > On a windows XP machine, MS-IE is set as the default browser so when I do:
> > webbrowser.open('http://localhost:8080') IE starts with this address.
> > But in stead of launching IE, I want to launch Firefox *without* setting
> > Firefox as the default browser globally on this machine.
>
> > Any hints, ideas? Your help is most appreciated.
>
> take an educated guess where to find firefox, check if it's there, and do
> something like
>   os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, where_firefox_is, "http://localhost:8080")
>
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Shouldn't you be using the subprocess module instead as it is
replacing the os.spawn* functionality from 2.4 on? See
http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/module-subprocess.html

If so, then the code would be:

subprocess.Popen(r'where_firefox_is http://localhost:8080')

Mike