bpo-41754: Ignore NotADirectoryError in invocation of xdg-settings (GH-23075)
It is not clear why this can happen, but several users have mentioned
getting this exception on macOS.
(cherry picked from commit 23831a7a90956e38b7d70304bb6afe30d37936de)
Co-authored-by: Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>
diff --git a/Lib/webbrowser.py b/Lib/webbrowser.py
index cea9130..6023c1e 100755
--- a/Lib/webbrowser.py
+++ b/Lib/webbrowser.py
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@
cmd = "xdg-settings get default-web-browser".split()
raw_result = subprocess.check_output(cmd, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
result = raw_result.decode().strip()
- except (FileNotFoundError, subprocess.CalledProcessError, PermissionError) :
+ except (FileNotFoundError, subprocess.CalledProcessError, PermissionError, NotADirectoryError) :
pass
else:
global _os_preferred_browser
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-01-15-07-20.bpo-41754.DraSZh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-01-15-07-20.bpo-41754.DraSZh.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..181c2d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-01-15-07-20.bpo-41754.DraSZh.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+webbrowser: Ignore *NotADirectoryError* when calling ``xdg-settings``.