New submission from Elizabeth Myers: os.startfile can be implemented on other OS'es besides Windows relatively easily (although the operation parameter should probably be limited to Windows; it can be implemented elsewhere, but is probably not worth the trouble).
On Unix-like operating systems besides OS X, an attempt to use xdg-open can be used and will attempt to open the file in a chosen program; this is the freedesktop.org standard open utility. See also http://linux.die.net/man/1/xdg-open and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-open (not specific to ArchLinux). On OS X, open can be used, with similar results to xdg-open (in fact, xdg-open seems inspired by it). See also https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/open.1.html. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 255306 nosy: Elizacat priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: os.startfile implementation for other OS'es besides Windows type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25727> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
