def open_in_browser(html): """ Open the HTML document in a web browser, saving it to a temporary file to open it. Note that this does not delete the file after use. This is mainly meant for debugging. """ import os import webbrowser import tempfile handle, fn = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix=".html") f = os.fdopen(handle, "wb") try: f.write(b"") f.write(html.encode("utf-8")) finally: # we leak the file itself here, but we should at least close it f.close() url = "file://" + fn.replace(os.path.sep, "/") webbrowser.open(url) return url