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I have an HTML document that I am able to open with the webbrowser module by specifying it as the URL that I want to open, this works fine. I want this document to be able to refresh itself (in a way other than reopening itself) with a Python script that will be running. I've tried setting new=0 in the webbrowser module, but it just opens a new tab in the browser anyway. Is there any way to accomplish this?

Dan Doe
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    If *new* is 0 it should open it in the same tab - and not a new tab. AFAIK there is no other way of doing this. – Russell Dias Jan 10 '12 at 02:55
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    You need to refresh the page with some Javascript, which [is pretty simple](http://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=seb&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=webhp&source=hp&q=refresh%20page%20with%20javascript&pbx=1&oq=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&fp=24d5377621950837&ion=1&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=24d5377621950837&biw=1280&bih=679&ion=1). There is no way to do this with Python other than what you already mentioned. – Bartek Jan 10 '12 at 03:01
  • Thanks, I'll look into some Javascript. – Dan Doe Jan 10 '12 at 03:04

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Two ways to solve the issue: JavaScript - Add this to the bottom of your page with the filename path updated, it will do a full reload every 10 seconds in the same tab. 

<script>
setInterval(function(){
window.open('file:///C:/YOURPATH/file2.html', "_self")
}, 10000);
</script>

Python option - use Selenium. For that you will need to download a driver.exe compatible with the browser you need, link to it in your code. Assign the open page to the driver in a do while true loop with a time.sleep(10).

If you insist on using python, I can write out the code in more detail, but the JavaScript solution should work.

Vitalijs Arkulinskis
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Ajax (Javascript) is used to refresh-html-document without reload .

srt111
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