On Jun 10, 1:57 pm, Alexnb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would work, but not for what I want. See the file could be anywhere on > the user's system and so the entire path will be unique, and that didn't > work with a unique path. What is the subprocess module you are talking > about? >
<snip> As Carsten pointed out, we don't really know what you're doing. Or at least, I don't. Why do you even want to do string substitution? How does the user navigate to the files that the user wants to open? Are you using a GUI or a command line interface? Anyway, Google is your friend. Searching for "python subprocess" gives you this: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
