starting windows program from python based on file extension ?

[kowald]

Hi everybody,

I used python to build a HTML file and now I would like to
automatically start my browser to display this file. I guess I could
use os.system(), but then I had to specify a specific path to the
browser.

I wonder if it is possible to tell windows to open "myFile.html" using
the program that is registered to open html files (similar to double
clicking on the file).

Any idea how to do that from python ??

Many thanks,

Alex

 

[F. Petitjean]

Le 3 Mar 2005 02:53:51 -0800, (e-mail address removed) a écrit :

Hi everybody,

I used python to build a HTML file and now I would like to
automatically start my browser to display this file. I guess I could
use os.system(), but then I had to specify a specific path to the
browser.

I wonder if it is possible to tell windows to open "myFile.html" using
the program that is registered to open html files (similar to double
clicking on the file).

Any idea how to do that from python ??

import os
os.startfile("myFile.html")
# on windows only

 

[Duncan Booth]

wrote:

I wonder if it is possible to tell windows to open "myFile.html" using
the program that is registered to open html files (similar to double
clicking on the file).

Any idea how to do that from python ??