how to set the URL

comment on behavior:
- you should comment your answered questions and/or set them to solved if so
- have a look at the docs and this board, before asking basic questions (other people, who may answer your questions have done this also)

- to open an application: use the App class features
- to enter an url to a browser: get the window frontmost and use type("l", KeyModifier.CTRL) on windows to position to the address field

Raiman,

I tried the following code by using function to pass the url but i am getting the following error

Function
def OpenBrowser(url):
     print(url)
     myApp = App("iexplore")
     if not myApp.window(): # no window(0) - Firefox not open
        App.open("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe")
        wait(8)
        myApp.focus()
        wait(1)
        type("l", KEY_CTRL)
        type(url+Key.ENTER)
        wait(10)

Note : Url value getting from .xls file

main script : Global.OpenBrowser(url)

Error : type(url+Key.ENTER) TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'unicode'

Thanks RaiMan, that solved my question.

The following code will work only for Windows systems, but it is an easy way to open a URL from Sikuli. Since I didn't find the whole answer anywhere, here's what worked for me. I used os,popen() to open cmd and start a url in the default browser.

#example1 -- raw string
import os
# Note that because the ampersand ("&") is reserved in Batch file processing
# the ampersands in the query string need to have a caret (^) in front of them
cmd = r'start /B "" "http://annapolis.craigslist.org/search/msa?query=mandolin^&maxAsk=200"'
os.popen(cmd);

# example2 -- concatenation
import os
# with a variable URL, I opted not to mess with raw string format, but just concatenated these into the mix
urlVariable[recordsCount] = 'http://annapolis.craigslist.org/search/msa?query=mandolin^&maxAsk=200'
cmd1 = 'start /B \"\" \"'
cmd2 ='\"'

os.popen(cmd1+ urlVariable[recordsCount] +cmd2);

I hope this helps!

With version 1.0.1 you could simply use:

if the url string contains blanks

run('start "' + url "')

or
run ("start " + url.replace(" ", "%20"))

if you are sure there are no blanks, this would be sufficient:
run ("start " + url)

this is for Windows.

For Mac use open instead of start.

This will open the url in your standard browser.

This works now, because I reworked the run command completely.