betterSIS Web Utilities Documentation

BETTERSIS.WEB_UTILS: web utilities used to manage web pages

bettersis.web_utils.open_browser(t_url, t_details='')[source]

Tries to open <t_url> page with a browser.

If the user is root, browsers will fail to open: the function will print a message to the user to open the url manually

<t_details> is shown before “page” inside messages.

Example:

>>> details = "tutorials"
>>> tutorials_page = "http://www.example.com/index.html"
>>> open_browser(tutorials_page, details)
Trying to open the tutorials page on a browser... Done, the webpage is open
# if running as root:
Trying to open the tutorials page on a browser... can't open the browser because you are running betterSIS as root!
You can find the tutorials page at this URL: http://www.example.com/index.html

Parameters:

t_url (str) – url to open
t_details (str) – details about the page

Return bool success:

True if the browser was opened successfully