In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and feed it to the application
that is registered for it.
Not too sure what to Google for.
- Hendrik
os.startfile
TJG
> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>> How do I do the equivalent of clicking (in SuSe) or double clicking (in
>> Windows) on a file?
>>
>> In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and feed it to the
>> application that is registered for it.
> os.startfile
Unfortunately this is Windows-only.
For KDE you can use
$ kfmclient exec yourfile
Peter
Good point. I think that Paul Boddie's desktop
module is designed to handle cross-platform issues
for this kind of thing: (Never used it myself)
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/desktop/0.2.3
TJG
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On Mac OS X, invoke the command /usr/bin/open -a <Application>
file , or /usr/bin/open file
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Tommy Nordgren
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> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> > How do I do the equivalent of clicking (in SuSe) or double clicking (in
Windows)
> > on a file?
> >
> > In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and feed it to the
application
> > that is registered for it.
> >
> > Not too sure what to Google for.
> >
> > - Hendrik
>
> os.startfile
>
> TJG
Brill - thanks Tim!
- Hendrik
>
> On 22 aug 2007, at 12.04, Peter Otten wrote:
>
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> On Mac OS X, invoke the command /usr/bin/open -a <Application>
> file , or /usr/bin/open file
Thanks Tommy - was not thinking of Macs, but nice to know...
- Hendrik
> Peter Otten wrote:
> > Tim Golden wrote:
> >
> >> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> >>> How do I do the equivalent of clicking (in SuSe) or double clicking (in
> >>> Windows) on a file?
> >>>
> >>> In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and feed it to the
> >>> application that is registered for it.
> >
> >> os.startfile
> >
> > Unfortunately this is Windows-only.
>
> Good point. I think that Paul Boddie's desktop
> module is designed to handle cross-platform issues
> for this kind of thing: (Never used it myself)
>
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/desktop/0.2.3
>
> TJG
It gets better and better - Thanks Peter and Tim.
- Hendrik