Back in the day, python was popular because it was a “batteries included” language, which meant I supposedly had almost everything you would need right there in the standard language. These days of cause no one runs python without going on a shopping spree of additional packages on pypi, so it would be less of a big deal if it didn’t include a browser lib, or a GUI lib out of the box.
I was looking at the "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" book by Al Sweigart (which admittedly i have not read cover to cover, but rather use it as a reference) for some help with a little polite scraping, and lo and behold the webbrowser module...See chapter 12: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/chapter12/
I have not played much with it yet, but man, python continues to impress me!
Is not a built in text editor, is a command to open programmatically your default text editor to edit a file (new or existing).
There are several cases when you would want to do that, for example, think on the git CLI, that opens one so you can write a commit message, etc.
And is not only about using the EDITOR variable, most non-programmers doesn’t have one defined or it points to vim or something equally terrible for non technical users.
