webbrowser module bug?

[Ron Adam]

Steve Holden wrote:
> Ron Adam wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> On my Windows laptop it works on 2.4.1 and 2.5.1 native, but not on 
> 2.5.1 for Cygwin.

Does it mangle the url in the same way?

If so, then that would be enough to file a bug report.

It's maybe not due to the webbrowser module it self, but maybe something 
else that's platform dependent?

Can anyone else reproduce this?

Ron