webbrowser module bug?

[Paul Boddie]

On 25 May, 00:03, 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

Since %22 is the URL-encoded double-quote character ("), I can only
imagine that something is quoting the URL for the shell, resulting in
the following command:

firefox '"http://www.python.org/"'

Or something similar, at least. Firefox 1.5 seems to refuse to open
such URLs, though.

Paul