Improve webbrowser (.open) doc and behavior

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

The issue names webbrowser.open but provides no file, test, or concrete expected behavior. Start by locating the webbrowser implementation and its .open documentation, then read the linked BPO issue for the intended scope. Completion criteria are not defined in the payload and need agreement before implementation.

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Description

docs stdlib type-bug
BPO 10799
Nosy @birkenfeld, @terryjreedy, @orsenthil, @ezio-melotti, @merwok

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2010-12-31.03:47:29.979>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library', 'docs']
title = 'Improve webbrowser (.open) doc and behavior'
updated_at = <Date 2013-03-28.12:57:16.564>
user = 'https://github.com/terryjreedy'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2013-03-28.12:57:16.564>
actor = 'terry.reedy'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Documentation', 'Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2010-12-31.03:47:29.979>
creator = 'terry.reedy'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 10799
keywords = []
message_count = 8.0
messages = ['124949', '126056', '126921', '137614', '182922', '182923', '183108', '185444']
nosy_count = 5.0
nosy_names = ['georg.brandl', 'terry.reedy', 'orsenthil', 'ezio.melotti', 'eric.araujo']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue10799'
versions = ['Python 3.3', 'Python 3.4']

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