commit d518ed0baaa31ca25cd88ac8996c7a7d563b2a1f
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Wed Jun 24 05:59:19 2020 -0700
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Wed Jun 24 14:59:19 2020 +0200
tree ff5c673001af0a12da9076c67191919e1f59dee9
parent 4b80cfbaf6848af50c4ea8b2544e3306a3b0b64c

bpo-41005: Fixed perrmission error (GH-20936) (GH-21051)

* 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>
(cherry picked from commit 9e27bc0c1efc7478872f98729f87886e9333548f)

Co-authored-by: Krishna Chivukula <63070026+KrishnaSai2020@users.noreply.github.com>

Co-authored-by: Krishna Chivukula <63070026+KrishnaSai2020@users.noreply.github.com>

Lib/webbrowser.py

diff --git a/Lib/webbrowser.py b/Lib/webbrowser.py
index 3dcf66b..53e0efc 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

Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-06-17-13-45-15.bpo-41005.zZegdV.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-06-17-13-45-15.bpo-41005.zZegdV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-06-17-13-45-15.bpo-41005.zZegdV.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b5f3f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-06-17-13-45-15.bpo-41005.zZegdV.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fixed an XDG settings issue not allowing macos to open browser in webbrowser.py
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