Open file in default app and exit in Windows

[Tim Chase]

On 2015-01-28 07:50, stephen.boulet at gmail.com wrote:
> I am using the following to open a file in its default application
> in Windows 7:
> 
> from subprocess import call
> 
> filename = 'my file.csv'
> call('"%s"' % filename, shell=True)

You can try

  import os
  filename = 'my file.csv'
  os.startfile(filename)

which works on Windows systems.  For other platforms, you'd have to
manually spawn either "open" on Macs or "xdg-open" on Linux.  Not
sure if there's a similar application on the BSDs.

-tkc