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What exactly is the purpose/function of autoraise in webbrowser library, Python?

I have tried to us webbrowser.open function to open a url with the following code:

webbrowser.open('https://docs.python.org/3/library/webbrowser.html', new = 2, autoraise = True)

Basically, the code runs as expected, but when I change autoraise = True to autoraise = False, the code runs the same, there is no difference at all.

So, I checked the documentation and found the following answer: If autoraise is True, the window is raised if possible. The term “raise” means to bring it to the front. However, the functionality of it is still unclear to me, due to the fact that there was no noticable difference as mentioned above.

I would be grateful, if anyone could clarify the topic for me.

Solution

  • It basically means it will bring it to the front, the first window!