Python Webbrowser question

Question

I'm opening a webpage in the default webbrowser on the system using python's webbrowser module.

I want to check if the site is already open in the browser and only open a new tab/window if it is not. Otherwise reload the already opened page.

Is there a way to do this with webbrowser module? If not, is there any other module i can use to do this.

Answer 1

use

webbrowser.open( url, new=0 ) 

this tries to open the website in the same windows if possible, if you set the new parameter to 1 a new window/tab will be generated

but i'm not sure if this works reliable on all plattforms

Answer 2

from http://docs.python.org/library/webbrowser.html#webbrowser.open_new_tab

webbrowser.open_new_tab(url)

Open url in a new page (“tab”) of the default browser, if possible, otherwise equivalent to open_new()