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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-05-17 08:55:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-05-17 08:55:00 (GMT) |
| commit | 903953c19ecabe8da2e997708aa08e9a480c9113 (patch) | |
| tree | 636be8996b9ee8bc00000f91c1bf16c2a2e48571 /Doc/library | |
| parent | ee8e08b8b686ee23c1f6995d608bb2a0f59277c2 (diff) | |
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#5935: mention that BROWSER is looked for in PATH.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/webbrowser.rst b/Doc/library/webbrowser.rst index af8b637..b50bdbe 100644 --- a/Doc/library/webbrowser.rst +++ b/Doc/library/webbrowser.rst @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ override the platform default list of browsers, as a os.pathsep-separated list of browsers to try in order. When the value of a list part contains the string ``%s``, then it is interpreted as a literal browser command line to be used with the argument URL substituted for ``%s``; if the part does not contain -``%s``, it is simply interpreted as the name of the browser to launch. +``%s``, it is simply interpreted as the name of the browser to launch. [1]_ For non-Unix platforms, or when a remote browser is available on Unix, the controlling process will not wait for the user to finish with the browser, but @@ -201,3 +201,8 @@ module-level convenience functions: .. versionadded:: 2.5 + +.. rubric:: Footnotes + +.. [1] Executables named here without a full path will be searched in the + directories given in the :envvar:`PATH` environment variable. |