Opening a file with system default application

[tactics40]

I'm writing a GUI application in Jython which takes a database text
file and performs some operations on the data, finally spitting out a
group of CSV files.

I generate a log file and several CSV files and I thought it would be
helpful if I could add a button the user could click on to
automatically launch the log file or the CSV output files using the
default text editor / spreadsheet editor on their system.

Does Python (or Java, since I'm using jython) have a clean cut way to
do this?

[BartlebyScrivener]

don't know Jython, but in Python, I think you want:

import os

os.system('mytextfile.txt')

Whatever file you reference should open in the application associated
with it. At least that's the way it works on Win XP

rd

[tac-tics]

BartlebyScrivener wrote:

don't know Jython, but in Python, I think you want:

import os

os.system('mytextfile.txt')

Whatever file you reference should open in the application associated
with it. At least that's the way it works on Win XP

rd

I didn't think about that. It would probably break like mad under *nix
that fine. This will solve my issue.

Thanks =-)

Even still, does anyone know if there is a more platform indepedent way
to do this?

[BartlebyScrivener]

>> It would probably break like mad under *nix

I bet it would work the same way on linux or os x; it's the equivalent
of double-clicking on the file.

rd

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <11**********************@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups .com>,
BartlebyScrivener wrote:

It would probably break like mad under *nix

I bet it would work the same way on linux or os x; it's the equivalent
of double-clicking on the file.

No it doesn't work. Double clicking is not an OS thing but a a GUI thing.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

[Cameron Laird]

In article <pa****************************@gmx.net>,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj****@gmx.net> wrote:

In <11**********************@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups .com>,
BartlebyScrivener wrote:

It would probably break like mad under *nix

I bet it would work the same way on linux or os x; it's the equivalent
of double-clicking on the file.

No it doesn't work. Double clicking is not an OS thing but a a GUI thing.

[BartlebyScrivener]

>>> That also pops up a command shell window, which may not be

desirable. On Windows, there is os.startfile("someknown.type")

Ack. You're right. I get them mixed up. And os.startfile is Windows
only.

Sorry.

rd