Dispatching default application for file, cross platform.

Hendrik van Rooyen

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Aug 22, 2007, 3:26:06 AM8/22/07

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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

Tim Golden

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Aug 22, 2007, 5:18:30 AM8/22/07

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os.startfile

TJG

Peter Otten

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Aug 22, 2007, 6:04:28 AM8/22/07

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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.
For KDE you can use

$ kfmclient exec yourfile

Peter

Tim Golden

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Aug 22, 2007, 6:52:38 AM8/22/07

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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

Tommy Nordgren

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Aug 22, 2007, 7:41:24 AM8/22/07

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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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Hendrik van Rooyen

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Aug 22, 2007, 11:01:44 AM8/22/07

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"Tim Golden" <ma...@timgolden.me.uk> 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.
> >

> > Not too sure what to Google for.
> >
> > - Hendrik
>
> os.startfile
>
> TJG

Brill - thanks Tim!

- Hendrik

Hendrik van Rooyen

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Aug 22, 2007, 11:01:16 AM8/22/07

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"Tommy Nordgren" <tommy.n...@comhem.se> wrote:

>
> 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

Hendrik van Rooyen

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Aug 22, 2007, 11:02:23 AM8/22/07

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"Tim Golden" <ma....me.uk>

> 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