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Soheil yns
Soheil yns

Reputation: 15

Launch Telegram Desktop using python in Ubuntu

First of all, I am a beginner in the Linux environment

I have used the command below in python to open the Telegram Desktop in the Windows 10 environment and it works correctly:

subprocess.Popen('C:\\Users\\username\\AppData\\Roaming\\Telegram Desktop\\Telegram.exe')

But now I want to do the same thing in python but in the Ubuntu environment. I have used the command below to do it but it does not work:

subprocess.Popen('\\home\\username\\snap\\telegram-desktop\\2551\\.local\\share\\TelegramDesktop')

Error = "No such a file or directory"

Maybe I have a problem with the installation path for the telegram. Consider that I found the path using <locate> command in terminal

Upvotes: 0

Views: 541

Answers (2)

Kolay.Ne
Kolay.Ne

Reputation: 1398

Because of historical reasons, Windows uses the backslash symbol (\) as the path separator, while Linux/UNIX systems use the forward-slash (/).

When a path begins with /, it is interpreted as an absolute path, otherwise, it is treated as a relative one (if it contains at least one forward-slash) or as a command which can be found by the PATH environment variable.

When you write

subprocess.Popen('\\home\\username\\snap\\telegram-desktop\\2551\\.local\\share\\TelegramDesktop')

Python tries to find a file in the PATH with has this big 70-characters long name. If you want to specify an absolute file path instead, you should do

subprocess.Popen('/home/username/snap/telegram-desktop/2551/.local/share/TelegramDesktop')

If this still throws the FileNotFound exception, it's most likely that you have just specified a wrong file path. If you're having the Permission Denied error, you might not have the executing permission for this file (learn more by searching for "Linux execute permission")

Upvotes: 0

Code-Apprentice
Code-Apprentice

Reputation: 83557

Unix uses / as a path separator. You have \\ instead which makes this look like one long file name, not a path.

Upvotes: 1

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