webbrowser module bug?

[Ron Adam]

kyosohma at gmail.com wrote:
> On May 24, 5:03 pm, Ron Adam <r... at ronadam.com> wrote:
>> Is anyone else having problems with the webbrowser module?
>>
>> Python 2.5.1c1 (release25-maint, Apr 12 2007, 21:00:25)
>> [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>  >>> import webbrowser
>>  >>> webbrowser.open('http://www.python.org')
>> True
>>  >>>
>>
>> It opens firefox as expected, but the url is ...
>>
>>       file:///home/ron/%22http://www.python.org%22
>>
>> Which of course doesn't do what is expected.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Ron
> 
> I don't know. This works for me with Python 2.4 on Windows XP SP2. The
> docs don't say much (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-
> webbrowser.html). Maybe it would be beneficial to read the module's
> code? Or use the "register" command manually?

It works for me on python 2.4 also, but not on later versions.

Looks like I'll need to try to test the url at the point where it calls the 
browser from webbrowser.py.

Can someone else test this on python 2.5?

Ron