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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_webbrowser.py | 18 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | Lib/webbrowser.py | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-24-10-33-42.bpo-35308.9--2iy.rst | 2 |
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_webbrowser.py b/Lib/test/test_webbrowser.py index 71f2e27467..519a9432ab 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_webbrowser.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_webbrowser.py @@ -309,6 +309,24 @@ class ImportTest(unittest.TestCase): webbrowser = support.import_fresh_module('webbrowser') webbrowser.get() + def test_environment_preferred(self): + webbrowser = support.import_fresh_module('webbrowser') + try: + webbrowser.get() + least_preferred_browser = webbrowser.get(webbrowser._tryorder[-1]).name + except (webbrowser.Error, AttributeError, IndexError) as err: + self.skipTest(str(err)) + + with support.EnvironmentVarGuard() as env: + env["BROWSER"] = least_preferred_browser + webbrowser = support.import_fresh_module('webbrowser') + self.assertEqual(webbrowser.get().name, least_preferred_browser) + + with support.EnvironmentVarGuard() as env: + env["BROWSER"] = sys.executable + webbrowser = support.import_fresh_module('webbrowser') + self.assertEqual(webbrowser.get().name, sys.executable) + if __name__=='__main__': unittest.main() diff --git a/Lib/webbrowser.py b/Lib/webbrowser.py index 1e27c83fd9..82bff835fd 100755 --- a/Lib/webbrowser.py +++ b/Lib/webbrowser.py @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def open_new_tab(url): return open(url, 2) -def _synthesize(browser, *, preferred=True): +def _synthesize(browser, *, preferred=False): """Attempt to synthesize a controller base on existing controllers. This is useful to create a controller when a user specifies a path to @@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ def register_standard_browsers(): # and prepend to _tryorder for cmdline in userchoices: if cmdline != '': - cmd = _synthesize(cmdline, preferred=False) + cmd = _synthesize(cmdline, preferred=True) if cmd[1] is None: register(cmdline, None, GenericBrowser(cmdline), preferred=True) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-24-10-33-42.bpo-35308.9--2iy.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-24-10-33-42.bpo-35308.9--2iy.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a33fe2e481 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-24-10-33-42.bpo-35308.9--2iy.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Fix regression in ``webbrowser`` where default browsers may be preferred +over browsers in the ``BROWSER`` environment variable. |