How to open a file on mac OSX 10.8.2 in python

Question

I am writing a python code on eclipse and want to open a file that is present in Downloads folder. I am using MAC OSX 10.8.2. I tried with f=os.path.expanduser(\"~/Downloa

Answer 1

I am hesitant to answer because this question was double-posted and is confusingly phrased, but... if you want to "open" the file in OSX using the default editor, then add the open command to your subprocess. This works for me:

subprocess.Popen("open myfile.txt",shell=True)