["python","linux","url","operating-system"]
Call to operating system to open url?

What can I use to call the OS to open a URL in whatever browser the user has as default? Not worried about cross-OS compatibility; if it works in linux thats enough for me!
Here is how to open the user's default browser with a given url: import webbrowser url = "https://www.google.com/" webbrowser.open(url, new=0, autoraise=True) Here is the documentation about this functionality. It's part of Python's stdlibs: http://docs.python.org/library/webbrowser.html I have tested this successfully on Linux, Ubuntu 10.10.