startfile problems

[Timothy Smith]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

>On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:35:27 +1000, Timothy Smith
><timothy at open-networks.net> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
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>>it's iterally just
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>>PDFname = 'tmp.pdf'
>>os.startfile(PDFname)
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>>thats the code.
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>	No "import os"?
>	And the full traceback?
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>>so obviously it contains no errnous characters. see my update btw. it 
>>actually DOES open the report, but throws up the exception as well.
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>	Must not have made it to my server yet, assuming it was posted
>after my comment.
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>import os
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>PDFname = "test.pdf"
>os.startfile(PDFname)
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>	No errors if I'm in the directory with the PDF when I execute
>the program...
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>E:\UserData\Dennis Lee Bieber\My Documents>script1.py
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>E:\UserData\Dennis Lee Bieber\My Documents>python script1.py
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>E:\UserData\Dennis Lee Bieber\My Documents>
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yep the program is executed in the same dir as the pdf file. like i said 
it actually opens it, but throws up an exception as well.
if i hadn't seen it with my own eyes i wouldn't believe it.