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Ethan Wrightson
Ethan Wrightson

Reputation: 169

Startfile in Python on Mac

I've just switched operating systems from Windows 10 to Mac OSX Sierra, and I've started using Sierra to do Python programming. What I used to do was open and write to a file, and then use os.startfile to automatically display everything that was written to it. Now that I've switched to Mac, opening and writing to a file is going okay (although I'm still figuring out how to have the files be saved to the Desktop) but os.startfile doesn't work. I've searched thoroughly for an equivalent to this, but nothing I've found seems to fit what I need. I'm using Python 3.x , and I think that the problem might be that all of the answers I have seen might be for Python 2. Could anyone give me a clear way of starting a file in the same way that os.startfile does and any information I might need about using it?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3442

Answers (1)

App Dev Guy
App Dev Guy

Reputation: 5536

As noted in the comment by ForceBru, os.startfile is only available on Windows.

For Mac, you should run os.system("open some.file").

Answering as this question has no answer provided.

Upvotes: 2

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