WindowsError in webbrowser.open

[luks]

BPO	1681248
Nosy	@birkenfeld
Files	webbrowser-windowserror.diff

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title = 'WindowsError in webbrowser.open'
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[luks]

On Windows, os.startfile can throw an exception if the URL action is not assigned to any program. I think the function should catch it and return False.

[birkenfeld]

Fixed with your patch from bpo-1681228.