commit 9e27bc0c1efc7478872f98729f87886e9333548f
author Krishna Chivukula <63070026+KrishnaSai2020@users.noreply.github.com> Mon Jun 22 10:06:07 2020 +0100
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Mon Jun 22 11:06:07 2020 +0200
tree d32dd2123e9d33931b46fd7616b4a868ce70dc84
parent 36ff513f82e372ed3cea0bf7cbdf15a1ef6dab9e

bpo-41005: Fixed perrmission error (GH-20936)

* fixed issue 41005: webbrowser fails when xdg-settings cannot be executed

Co-authored-by: KrishnaSai2020 <krishnasai.chivukula@gmal.com>
Co-authored-by: blurb-it[bot] <43283697+blurb-it[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Lib/webbrowser.py

diff --git a/Lib/webbrowser.py b/Lib/webbrowser.py
index 31e1df4..cea9130 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):
+            except (FileNotFoundError, subprocess.CalledProcessError, PermissionError) :
                 pass
             else:
                 global _os_preferred_browser