Cross Platform Browser Launcher

[Fuzzyman]

I've written a simple application in python with an HTML help file.

I'm looking for a cross platform way of launching the help file.

On windows I'd use :
os.system('start help.html')

Which automatically opens the file with the users browser.

Is there a cross-platform way of doing the same thing ?
I can do a platform test and use different techniques for different
systems - but I don't know how to achieve the same effect on a Linux
(Unix ? Mac ?) machine.....

Any help appreciated.

Fuzzy

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[Trent Mick]

[Fuzzyman wrote]

I've written a simple application in python with an HTML help file.

I'm looking for a cross platform way of launching the help file.

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-webbrowser.html


Cheers,
Trent