[Tutor] how to open a file using os.system

[Torsten Marek]

On Mi, 2008-01-09 at 15:54 +0530, brindly sujith wrote:
> hi
> 
> i am developing a GUI application using TKINTER
> 
> i want to open a file from the askopenfile(which is a tkFileDialog)
> using OS.SYSTEM.
> 
> i have already created the file open dilog using
> tkFileDialog.askopenfile (parent=root,mode='rb',title='choose a file')
> Now i want to open a file from this dialog using OS.SYSTEM

Hi, 

why would you want to open it using os.system, and how? os.system is for executing
commands in a subshell. If you want to open a file for reading, just do

f = open(filename, "r")

and then read from using using .read(), .readline() or by looping over it.

best,

Torsten
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