# webbrowser_newtabs.py

# webbrowser_newtabs.py

import webbrowser
new = 2 # open in a new tab, if possible

# open a public URL, in this case, the webbrowser docs
url = "http://docs.python.org/library/webbrowser.html"
webbrowser.open(url,new=new)

# open an HTML file on my own (Windows) computer

url = "file://C:/Users/test/Sample_HTML.html" # Note: foward slashes
webbrowser.open(url,new=new)