I was thinking of creating an app "organizer" with Python. This app would simply organize my apps and games. I was thinking of opening Steam games remotely. Since Steam uses steam://rungameid/(e.g. 440 for Team Fortress 2), I thought of using this code to open a game:

import webbrowser
chrome_path = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe %s'
webbrowser.get(chrome_path).open("steam://rungameid/440")

and it doesn't work, nor does it give an error. It merely shows the "Who's using Chrome?" portal and after you choose any account, nothing happens.

CodePudding user response：

You should not force a specific browser, you want the default protocol handler:

import webbrowser  
webbrowser.open("steam://...")

internally this should end up calling os.startfile which should call ShellExecute on Windows which is exactly what you want.