I am opening a file using os.start('myfile.pdf') from python. How can I
know when the user has closed the file so I can delete it? Thanks.
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On Oct 17, 12:43 pm, kilnhead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am opening a file using os.start('myfile.pdf') from python. How can I
know when the user has closed the file so I can delete it? Thanks.
I assume you mean os.startfile. There is no way to do this directly.
os.startfile simply hands off
Jerry wrote:
On Oct 17, 12:43 pm, kilnhead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am opening a file using os.start('myfile.pdf') from python. How can I
know when the user has closed the file so I can delete it? Thanks.
I assume you mean os.startfile. There is no way to do this directly.
os.startfile
You may be able to use os.popen()
kilnhead wrote:
I am opening a file using os.start('myfile.pdf') from python. How can I
know when the user has closed the file so I can delete it? Thanks.
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I think the win32all extension includes the findwindow() fuction, so
you could make a loop that looks for the window name (or class if it
takes that) of the pdf. You can also loop through a list of running
processes looking for whatever the process name is. Note that both of
these have serious
