Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment:
> The semantics of "associated application" change considerably from
> operating system to operating system. As an example,
> ``os.startfile("a.py")`` will usually run `a.py` in the Python
> interpreter, while ``xdg-open a.py`` it will usually open the source
> code in an editor on Linux.
Outch. I think the behavior should be more similar than that, i.e. that the
function should use startfile with the edit action on Windows.
About the name: I thought about “edit”; it really means open_file_in_editor.
BTW shutil feels the wrong place for this but I don’t think we have anything
better.
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