[Tutor] a question regarding os.system()

[Victor R. Cardona]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:26:23PM +0900, Haiyang wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I know that we can use os.system() to lauch applications.
> Say, I want to use notepad to open a file - data.txt
> I should do
> os.system('notepad data.txt')
> 
> BUT what if  the string 'data.txt' is stored in a variable, how can use
> notepad to open it?
> 
> file='c:\data\data.txt'
> os.system('notepad     and What?

You could use 
os.system("notepad %s" % file)

HTH,
Victor
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