[issue5993] python produces zombie in webbrowser.open

[C.A.M. Gerlach]

C.A.M. Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach at Gerlach.CAM> added the comment:

I can verify that this still occurs on Linux under an up to date Python 3.9 env (unknown browser; I can inquire), while on my Windows machine running an essentially identical Python 3.9 env, I don't get the warning. The practical problem arises when we are using `-X dev`/`-W error` and/or strict `filterwarnings` with Pytest, and the user passes a custom `--open-browser` flag to our test suite to open the resulting output in their web browser to inspect it for themselves. See [spyder-ide/docrepr#33](https://github.com/spyder-ide/docrepr/pull/33#discussion_r772164817) for details. I'm concerned this is going to be difficult to work around without doing over-broad silencing of warnings on the Pytest, because the warning is raised when the object is GC'ed, which may happen at a non-deterministic time or even after or even Python invocation level, and I can't reproduce it on my machine to test it.

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nosy: +CAM-Gerlach
status: pending -> open

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