Opens a url in the desktop's default browser

gistfile1.py

def open_url_in_browser(url):
"""
Opens a url in the desktop's default browser
"""
    import threading
    import webbrowser
 
    class BrowserThread(threading.Thread):
        def __init__(self, url):
            threading.Thread.__init__(self)
            self.url = url
        def run(self):
            webbrowser.open(self.url)
 
    BrowserThread(url).start()