Paul Boddie paul at boddie.org.uk
Wed Dec 16 11:36:33 EST 2009

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On 16 Des, 17:03, "Eric_Dex... at msn.com" <Eric_Dex... at msn.com> wrote:
> #this should be a cross platform example of os.startfile ( startfile )
> #for windows and linux.  this is the first version and
> #linux, mac, other os's commands for exceptions to the
> #rule would be appreciated.  at some point this will be
> #in the dex tracker project.

You could look at the desktop package for something similar:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/desktop

The desktop.open function supports a few extra workarounds, mostly
because it pre-dates xdg-open.

Paul

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