import BaseHTTPServer
import webbrowser
def LoadInDefaultBrowser(html):
"""Display html in the default web browser without creating a temp file.
Instantiates a trivial http server and calls webbrowser.open with a URL
to retrieve html from that server.
"""
class RequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
bufferSize = 1024*1024
for i in xrange(0, len(html), bufferSize):
self.wfile.write(html[i:i+bufferSize])
server = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('127.0.0.1', 0), RequestHandler)
webbrowser.open('http://127.0.0.1:%s' % server.server_port)
server.handle_request()
if __name__ == '__main__':
LoadInDefaultBrowser('<b>Hello World</b>')
