[pygtk] How to make a browser?

Tim Evans t.evans at aranz.com
Tue Jun 17 12:32:02 WST 2008


Paolo Bacci wrote:
> Hi, I want to know if there's any functional browser in python.
> 
> If not, how can I make it?

There is nothing in python that I would call a functional web browser, 
assuming that's what you're asking for.  There are gtk widgets like 
GtkHTML (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GtkHTML) and ways to embed Firefox 
into GTK apps (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/gtk-embedding.html).

Personally, I like reading web pages in my own chosen web browser, not a 
low-quality html widget or a bizarre embedded window.  I recommend this 
code for opening a web page in the user's preferred browser:

     import webbrowser
     webbrowser.open('http://www.python.org/')

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Tim Evans
Applied Research Associates NZ
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