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Re: html page mail link to webmail program

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Date Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:28:24 +1100
Subject Re: html page mail link to webmail program
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> writes:
>
>> Okay, the explicit Python question: Clicking on a mail link in a web
>> browser can start an external program. I would like that external
>> program to be a Python script that [controls an already-running web
>> browser to visit a URL and operate a web application].
>>
>> Surely this can be done in Python.
>
> Perhaps. I'd advise a web search for “python script web browser”, and be
> prepared for also learning how your specific operating system allows
> programs to control each other in separate processes.

Or just look at antigravity.py in the standard library, which has a
way of invoking a web browser - probably something trivially easy,
like calling on the webbrowser module, but it's more fun to look it up
via the arcane.

ChrisA

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Re: html page mail link to webmail program Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-12 13:28 +1100

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