Python: generic webbrowser.get().open() for chrome.exe does not work

Question

I am on Python 2.7 (Win 8.1 x64) and I want to open a URL in Chrome. As Chrome is only natively supported in 3.3+, I was trying a generic call:

import webbro         


        

Answer 1

On Windows, you don't need to use UNIX-style path. Just wrap the raw string path to google.exe in escaped quotes, and append %s token after it, within an f-string:

import webbrowser

url = "https://docs.python.org/3/library/webbrowser.html"
chrome = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
webbrowser.get(f"\"{chrome}\" %s").open_new_tab(url)