Ping's complaints are justified -- I've been looking at and testing webbrowser.py and it's a mess. Among other things: 1. The BROWSER variable is not interpreted properly. 2. The code is stupid about loading platform support it doesn't need. 3. It's not possible to specify lynx as a browser under Unix, because the computation of available browsers is split in two and partly done inside the CommandLineBrowser class. 3. The module code is excessively hard to read, obscuring these bugs. Our mistake was hurriedly merging the launcher code from IDLE with the browser-finder hack I wrote (the guts of CommandLineBrowser). The resulting code is a bad, overcomplicated architecture with a nasty seam in it. As co-designer/implementor I should have caught this sooner, but I was in a hurry to get a CML2 prototype out the door and didn't test anything but the case I needed. My apologies to all. I'm rewriting to fix these problems now. Documented semantics of entry points will be preserved. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. -- Frederick Bastiat
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