How would I go about making a file open. Not the way you might think.

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On Aug 23, 3:45 pm, Larry Bates <larry.ba... at websafe.com> wrote:
> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> > Lamonte Harris  wrote:
>
> >> Basically you can open a file by double clicking, and by default it would open
> > w/ what every program you have it set >to.  Most text files would open in
> > notepad.  How can I make a txt open so that notepad opens w/ the content in it
> > by >using just python.
>
> > I asked this question just yesterday - and Tim Golden answered:
>
> > os.startfile()
>
> > - Hendrik
>
> Actually os.startfile('filename.txt') will open the file with whatever
> application is associated with .txt files on that machine.  That could be
> different from notepad if the user has chosen to override the defaults.
>
> os.system('notepad.exe c:\\junk.txt')
>
> will force notepad.exe to load and it will load the file specified.
>
> All depends on what you want to do.
>
> -Larry

That's true, but technically you should use the subprocess.Popen
module with Shell=True rather than the os.system method. At least, in
the newer Python versions, that seems to be the recommendation.

Mike