I'm using a python script to take in a file containing a bunch of website URLs and open all of them in new tabs. However, I'm getting an error message when opening the first website: this is what I get:
0:41: execution error: "https://www.pandora.com/ " doesn’t understand the “open location” message. (-1708)
My script thus far looks like this:
import os
import webbrowser
websites = []
with open("websites.txt", "r+") as my_file:
websites.append(my_file.readline())
for x in websites:
try:
webbrowser.open(x)
except:
print (x + " does not work.")
My file consists of a bunch of URLs on their own lines.
I tried running your code and it works on my machine with python 2.7.9
It may be a character encoding issue when you are trying to open the file
This is my suggestion with the following edits:
import webbrowser
with open("websites.txt", "r+") as sites:
sites = sites.readlines() # readlines returns a list of all the lines in your file, this makes code more concise
# In addition we can use the variable 'sites' to hold the list returned to us by the file object 'sites.readlines()'
print sites # here we send the output of the list to the shell to make sure it contains the right information
for url in sites:
webbrowser.open_new_tab( url.encode('utf-8') ) # this is here just in-case, to encode characters that the webbrowser module can interpret
# sometimes special characters like '\' or '/' can cause issues for us unless we encode/decode them or make them raw strings
Hope this helps!