glensc/python-open

Open a file, directory, or URI using the OS's default application for that object type. Optionally, you can specify an application to use.

open

Description

Open a file, directory, or URI using the OS's default application for that object type. Optionally, you can specify an application to use.

This is a proxy for the following commands:

    OSX: "open"
Windows: "start"

Linux/Other: "xdg-open"

This is a python port of the node.js module: https://github.com/pwnall/node-open

Import

import open_python

Usage

open google.com in the user's default browser:

open_python.start("https://google.com/")

you can specify the program to use:

open_python.start("https://google.com/", "firefox")	

use in command line

$ python -m open_python https://google.com/

License

Copyright (c) 2013 skratchdot
Licensed under the MIT license.

Contributors

skratchdot panda2134