os.system?

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Vernon Cole <[email protected]> wrote:

> In gnome, I can click on a file and the correct application to open it will
> be started.
>   In Windows, I can get the same functionality from the command line by
> typing "start (somefilename)"
>   I can't seen to find an equivalent feature in Linux, so am beginning to
> suspect that it is gnome matching up the file with its application.
>   If I were to start writing such a utility, where would I find sample code
> how the GUI does it? Or is there already a POSIX command and I've never run
> across it?
>   (What I'm actually trying to do is implement Python "os.startfile" on
> Linux.)
> --
> Vernon Cole
> (sent from my 'droid phone)
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