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How to Open a Web Browser from Python
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browsser-open.py
# For documentation of the webbrowser module,
# see http://docs.python.org/library/webbrowser.html
import webbrowser
new = 2 # open in a new tab, if possible
# open a public URL, in this case, the webbrowser docs
url = "http://docs.python.org/library/webbrowser.html"
webbrowser.open(url,new=new)
# open an HTML file on my own (Windows) computer
url = "file://X:/MiscDev/language_links.html"
webbrowser.open(url,new=new)
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