os.startfile() on Linux ?

[Harald Schneider]

Thanks a lot for all your replies -- covered and solved the problem
completely!

All the best,
Harald

"Harald Schneider" <h_schneider at marketmix.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi,
>
> is there a way to call a file with it's corresponding application, like
> os.startfile() on Win32 does ?
> E.g. os.startfile('page.html') brings up this document in the default web
> browser.
>
> All the best,
> Harald
>
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