basic code of what I am doing

[Duncan Booth]

Alexnb <alexnbryan at gmail.com> wrote:

>         path = self.e.get()
>         path = "\"" + path + "\""
>         os.startfile(path)

Why are you adding spurious quote marks round the filename? os.startfile() 
will strip them off, but you don't need them. The help for os.startfile() 
does say though that the path must not start with a /, so you should use 
os.normpath to be on the safe side:

    os.startfile(os.path.normpath(self.e.get())

Anyway, the code works either with that change, or as you originally wrote 
it provided the path does not start with /. What was the question again?