On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Naftali <nmichalow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I may be missing something in your reply, but I am *not* wondering how to > associate python with the .pdf file extension. That I know how to do. What I > want to know is how from within the program that I've told windows to run > when the user clicks on the file --- how to access the file that the user > wishes to open. Windows must somehow make that available to my program. How > to I access it. Tomorrow, I'll try doing it an looping through the sys.argvs > and see what's there. maybe it's a simple as passing a path into the called > program. >
Oh! I see what you mean. You should get the full path and name of the file in sys.argv, but if you don't, I think what you need to do is add "%s" to the end of the association definition. My apologies for the prior misunderstanding. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
