Kamilche wrote: > Is there a command you can execute in Python that will open a window on > the desktop, such as 'My Documents'? Kind of like 'system', but for > folder names, not just programs. I'm running on Windows 2000.
There are two issues here. The first is how to open a folder and the second is how to resolve "special" folders. Folders are "documents" typically associated with the explorer.exe application. To open a document with its default app (e.g., a folder), use os.startfile which is included in Python. For example: import os os.startfile(r'c:\windows') Folders like My Documents, My Pictures, etc. are special and you need to determine their actual path before you can open them. The pywin32 extensions (https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018) include a way to get at this: from win32com.shell import shellcon, shell path = shell.SHGetFolderPath(0, shellcon.CSIDL_MYPICTURES, 0, 0) os.startfile(path) Google for CSIDL to find the constants to use for other special folders. Jimmy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
