os.system

[Matthias Huening]

Some days ago somebody mentioned the possibility to start the standard
browser through os.system on a Windows machine:

import os
os.system('start http://www.python.org/')

That works just fine, when I start it from the command line in a DOS box.
But from IDLE it takes a few seconds for the system to respond. Could
somebody explain why an whether there is a speed up for this?

Thanks,
Matthias