On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:57, Paul McNett <p@ulmcnett.com> 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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