commit 371c33567a0b6afb93ffde2fb4564fe57a41945b
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Sun Nov 08 02:07:44 2020 -0800
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Sun Nov 08 02:07:44 2020 -0800
tree 3fe6ae653e8cc4ab0253070421e4a4d488e5334b
parent 2e5bd4f6775b693bfc3a9f8986f88c0f1f41ff58

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>

Lib/webbrowser.py

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