#Issue2835: Correct an infinite recursion in webbrowser.open(), when KDE Konqueror is tried.

Lib/webbrowser.py

@@ -347,7 +347,8 @@ class Konqueror(BaseBrowser):
         else:
             action = "openURL"
 
-        devnull = open(os.devnull, "r+")
+        import io
+        devnull = io.open(os.devnull, "r+")
         # if possible, put browser in separate process group, so
         # keyboard interrupts don't affect browser as well as Python
         setsid = getattr(os, 'setsid', None)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue 2865: webbrowser.open() works again in a KDE environment.
+
 - The multifile module has been removed.
 
 - The SocketServer module has been renamed to socketserver.