Is it possible to add links into the Python script and print it out to the terminal/console? Like in HTML; once it was clicked, we will be redirected to the URL. (I'm on Linux)
<a href="URL">Click Here To Login</a>
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For example www.facebook.comCode Newbie– Code Newbie2014-03-02 07:45:35 +00:00Commented Mar 2, 2014 at 7:45
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1I mean: where = console / webpage / gui ...falsetru– falsetru2014-03-02 07:46:19 +00:00Commented Mar 2, 2014 at 7:46
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Perhaps a better question would be, how are you running the python program? What do you hope to do with the finished program?icedtrees– icedtrees2014-03-02 07:48:09 +00:00Commented Mar 2, 2014 at 7:48
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@falsetru , in Console (Linux Terminal)Code Newbie– Code Newbie2014-03-02 07:48:21 +00:00Commented Mar 2, 2014 at 7:48
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1You can't output a link, you can only output a file. The program that is reading the file, will know what to do with it. Your question is quite vague; and it is not clear what it is that you actually want.Burhan Khalid– Burhan Khalid2014-03-02 08:00:42 +00:00Commented Mar 2, 2014 at 8:00
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It all depends on where you want to print it out to. Some output locations do not support clickable hyperlinks.
For example, if you printed your output to a basic terminal, you would not be able to click on it.
One suggestion is to use python's webbrowser module to open links:
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open("http://www.example.com")
, which will open the link for you in a new window.
You could also output the text to a HTML file and open the HTML file in a web browser for the link:
open("link.html", "w").write('<a href="http://www.example.com"> Link </a>')
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Recently (in 2017) a few terminal emulators (namely iTerm2, GNOME Terminal, and Tilix; hopefully more to follow) have added support for custom hyperlinks.
Assuming your python app's output goes to such a terminal emulator, you can create ctrl+clickable (cmd+clickable on mac) hyperlinks like this:
print("\x1b]8;;http://example.com/\x1b\\Ctrl+Click here\x1b]8;;\x1b\\")
Further technical details are here.
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Yes it is possible here is a simple python cgi script that does what you describe.
print "Content-type: text/html"
print
print """
<html>
<head><title>Sample</title></head>
<body>
<a href='http://google.com'>google</a>
</body></html>
"""
you can learn more about cgi here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
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Also, just to add, some Python running applications automatically support clickable links. All you have to do is print("https://example.com/"), and once you click on it, it will take you to whatever website. In this case, it is example.com. One application that I know of that supports this is Replit.com.
Just so you know, if you are running it on the Python app (IDLE), then it won't work.
