How to resume a program (or exit) after opening a web browser?

Question

I am creating a small Python program that calls a module webbrowserto open a URL. Opening a URL works great.

My problem is that as soon as this line of code is reached, the problem is not responding. How to get a program to continue this line of code and continue execution? Below the problematic line is the problematic line, in context:

if viewinbrowser == "y":
    print "I can definitely do that. Loading URL now!"
    webbrowser.open_new(url)
    print "Exiting..."
    sys.exit()

The program does not reach the execution print "Exiting..."that I added because I noticed that for some reason the program did not leave the if statement.

I run this program from the command line if it is important. Edit: I run on Kubuntu 9.04 i386 using KDE 4.3 via backports. I use Firefox 3.5 as the default browser declared in the system settings for KDE, and it is correctly called a program. (At least a new tab opens in Firefox with the right URL, I believe that this is the desired functionality.) / Edit

In addition, I assume that this problem will occur with almost any external call, but I am very new to Python and do not know the terminology for searching on this site. (The search for "python webbrowser" did not bring anything useful.) So, I apologize if it has already been discussed under a different heading!

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

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pid = os.fork()
if pid:
    # we are the parent, continue on
    print "This runs in a separate process from the else clause."

else:
    #child runs browser then quits.
    webbrowser.open_new(url)
    print "Exiting..."
    sys.exit()

Answer 2

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>>> import webbrowser
>>> import threading
>>> x=lambda: webbrowser.open_new('http://scompt.com')
>>> t=threading.Thread(target=x)
>>> t.start()

Answer 3

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