Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
(backport from rev. 52056)
diff --git a/Lib/webbrowser.py b/Lib/webbrowser.py
index 7b0f736..3735587 100644
--- a/Lib/webbrowser.py
+++ b/Lib/webbrowser.py
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@
# if successful, register it
if retncode is None and commd:
- register("gnome", None, BackgroundBrowser(commd))
+ register("gnome", None, BackgroundBrowser(commd.split()))
# First, the Mozilla/Netscape browsers
for browser in ("mozilla-firefox", "firefox",
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fd22c7e..2e79551 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
Library
-------
+- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
+ GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
+
- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.