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This is awesome!

I like the idea of combining this with pyScript to create portable “GUI” apps. Use this for a local server, open the users browser and point it at it. Websockets/pickle to bridge to a UI written in pyScript.

Does cosmopolitan have an API to open the users default browser? I know Python itself does…

https://pyscript.net/

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Nice idea! IIRC redbean has the `LaunchBrowser` function (https://redbean.dev/2.0.html#LaunchBrowser) to open the user's default browser, and the `cosmo` module in Python is exactly for providing Cosmopolitan Libc goodies via a Python API. You can probably copy some of the LaunchBrowser code into `third_party/python/Python/cosmomodule.c` and implement the feature you're looking for. Submit a PR :)

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