On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:57, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/13/11 8:41 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>>> >  os.system("open %s" % document)
>>> >
>>> >  Paul
>>> >
>> Paul:  Is that Python?  Maybe it would work on Linux too?  Ultimately I
>> want to run the application from a button click in Dabo just like I do
>> in VFP.
>
> The os.system() call is Python. The "open document" shell call is Mac. The 
> equivalent
> on Windows is "startfile". I don't think there's anything to rely on for 
> Linux.
>
On most modern linux distros you can use xdg-open
(http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-open.html) it comes
preinstalled.

> The better python code would use subprocess(), but os.system is so much 
> easier to
> remember.
>
> Paul
>
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