Problem creating a shorcut

[Mike Driscoll]

On May 15, 2:03 pm, Larry Bates <larry.ba... at websafe.com`> wrote:
> Mike Driscoll wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I've had this niggling issue from time to time. I want to create a
> > shortcut on the user's desktop to a website that specifically loads
> > Firefox even if Firefox is not the default browser.
>
> > I usually use COM as it allows very specific settings of the shortcut,
> > such as the Working Directory and the Target Path. However, the
> > following will not work for some reason:
>
> > <code>
>
> > import win32com.client
> > import winshell
>
> > shell = win32com.client.Dispatch('WScript.Shell')
> > userDesktop = winshell.desktop()
>
> > shortcut = shell.CreateShortCut(userDesktop + '\\MyShortcut.lnk')
> > shortcut.Targetpath = r'"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
> > https:\www.myCompanyWebsite.com\auth\preauth.php'
> > shortcut.WorkingDirectory = r'C:\Program Files\Mozilla
> > Firefox'
> > shortcut.save()
>
> > </code>
>
> > This creates the following target path (which doesn't work):
>
> > "C:\"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" https:
> > \www.myCompanyWebsite.com\auth\preauth.php"
>
> > If I leave the website off, it works. If I leave the path to Firefox
> > out, it works too. Is there another method I can use other than
> > creating the shortcut by hand and using the shutil module?
>
> > Thank you for any ideas.
>
> > Mike
>
> Either you copied wrong or the problem is:
>
> "C:\"C:\Program Files...
>
> Note the C:\ is specified twice in the string.  I think it should read:
>
>  > "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" https:
>  > \www.myCompanyWebsite.com\auth\preauth.php"
>
> -Larry

Yeah, I know that it's in there twice and that that is the problem.
But I'm not causing that extra C:\. I run it exactly as above and that
is what I get for the output. I think it's the COM object. Maybe I
better just re-post this to the PyWin32 list...

Thanks,

Mike