How to execute a hyperlink?

[Muddy Coder]

Hi Folks,

Module os provides a means of running shell commands, such as:

import os
os.system('dir .')

will execute command dir

I think a hyperlink should also be executed. I tried:

os.system('http://somedomain.com/foo.cgi?name=foo&passwd=bar')

but I got kicked out by the Python interpreter. I wonder somebody
knows the syntax of triggering a hyperlink? Thanks in advance!


Muddy Coder

 

[Jon Clements]

Hi Folks,

Module os provides a means of running shell commands, such as:

import os
os.system('dir .')

will execute command dir

I think a hyperlink should also be executed. I tried:

os.system('http://somedomain.com/foo.cgi?name=foo&passwd=bar')

but I got kicked out by the Python interpreter. I wonder somebody
knows the syntax of triggering a hyperlink? Thanks in advance!

Muddy Coder

The webbrowser module springs to mind.

hth
Jon.

 

[alex23]

Module os provides a means of running shell commands [...]

import os
os.system('dir .')

will execute command dir

I think a hyperlink should also be executed. I tried:

os.system('http://somedomain.com/foo.cgi?name=foo&passwd=bar')

Well, clearly all you need to do is get your system to recognise URLs
as shell commands and you're set...

But if you'd like the *right* tool for the job, try webbrowser.

 

[Roel Schroeven]

Muddy Coder schreef:

Hi Folks,

Module os provides a means of running shell commands, such as:

import os
os.system('dir .')

will execute command dir

I think a hyperlink should also be executed. I tried:

os.system('http://somedomain.com/foo.cgi?name=foo&passwd=bar')

but I got kicked out by the Python interpreter. I wonder somebody
knows the syntax of triggering a hyperlink? Thanks in advance!

As others have said, you can use the webbrowser module for hyperlinks.
Alternatively you can use os.startfile() which works hyperlinks and many
types of files, but only works on Windows (it does the same as
double-clicking in Windows Explorer).

--
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge
faster than society gathers wisdom.
-- Isaac Asimov

Roel Schroeven

 

[Barak, Ron]

Hi Muddy,

http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html may help.

Bye,
Ron.

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Subject: How to execute a hyperlink?

Hi Folks,

Module os provides a means of running shell commands, such as:

import os
os.system('dir .')

will execute command dir

I think a hyperlink should also be executed. I tried:

os.system('http://somedomain.com/foo.cgi?name=foo&passwd=bar')

but I got kicked out by the Python interpreter. I wonder somebody knows the syntax of triggering a hyperlink? Thanks in advance!


Muddy Coder

 

[Cameron Laird]

Muddy Coder schreef:

As others have said, you can use the webbrowser module for hyperlinks.
Alternatively you can use os.startfile() which works hyperlinks and many
types of files, but only works on Windows (it does the same as
double-clicking in Windows Explorer).

.
.
.
I suspect that os.startfile() will indeed give Muddy Coder
the most immediate satisfaction. It might interest him,
though, also to experiment with

os.system("start %s" % URL)

Again, recognize this only gives happy results, in general,
under Win*.

 

[Jeff McNeil]

Hi Folks,

Module os provides a means of running shell commands, such as:

import os
os.system('dir .')

will execute command dir

I think a hyperlink should also be executed. I tried:

os.system('http://somedomain.com/foo.cgi?name=foo&passwd=bar')

but I got kicked out by the Python interpreter. I wonder somebody
knows the syntax of triggering a hyperlink? Thanks in advance!

Muddy Coder

Like others have said, if you want a browser window, use the
'webbrowser' module. If you're looking to simply trigger a GET/POST
without the UI aspect, then you'll probably want urllib or urllib2.

Thanks,

Jeff
mcjeff.blogspot.com