Python webbrowser open doesn't open url that has been stored in variable

Question

I just have a simple question. When I do something like

 import webbrowser

 webbrowser.open('www.google.com')

it works,and opens a page using my default browser However,when I store the url in a variable, it doesn't open it..doesn't throw up any errors or anything either.. something like:

 import webbrowser

 url=raw_input("Enter url")
 webbrowser.open(url)

Anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening?

Answer 1

The solution to this problem is to include http:// in the address, i.e., http://www.google.com.