#Issue2835: Correct an infinite recursion in webbrowser.open(), when KDE Konqueror is tried.
diff --git a/Lib/webbrowser.py b/Lib/webbrowser.py
index a028df0..4772adc 100644
--- a/Lib/webbrowser.py
+++ b/Lib/webbrowser.py
@@ -347,7 +347,8 @@
else:
action = "openURL"
- devnull = open(os.devnull, "r+")
+ import io
+ devnull = io.open(os.devnull, "r+")
# if possible, put browser in separate process group, so
# keyboard interrupts don't affect browser as well as Python
setsid = getattr(os, 'setsid', None)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e40844e..3f0b4a9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue 2865: webbrowser.open() works again in a KDE environment.
+
- The multifile module has been removed.
- The SocketServer module has been renamed to socketserver.