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This is a cross-platform version of the os.startfile function in the Python standard library.
It emulates the following actions in an operating system's UI:
which will open the default program associated with that type.
Install it directly into an activated virtual environment:
$ pip install universal-startfile
or add it to your Poetry project:
$ poetry add universal-startfile
After installation, import the startfile
function:
from startfile import startfile
startfile("~/Downloads/example.png")
startfile("http://example.com")
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A cross-platform version of 'os.startfile' from the standard library.
We found that universal-startfile demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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