How to open mailto link?

Question

Python

Please help, I need to open a mailto: link from python: in window 7, but when I do this webbrowser.open(mailto, new=1) IE opens, it says "this action could not be performed due to incorrect installation of the default mail client and starts to open a hundred empty windows. I checked in the control panel - everything is fine, the default client (The Bat) is installed there.
PS And when I say through chrome (which by the way is installed by the default browser, and not IE at all) I open mailto links - it opens quite normally in the default client. But if I manually open mailto in IE, then the same result as from python. Those. firstly, it is not clear why it opens in IE at all, and not in chrome, and secondly, some crap with IE.

Answer 1

It is not the browser that needs to be launched, but the system URI handler, on Windows this can be done via os.startfile.