[wxPython-users] RE: How to open an explorer window?

[Robert Dailey]

The suggestions here so far I like better than nothing, at least the code is
somewhat clean. Thanks a lot guys.

On 8/1/07, Chris Mellon <arkanes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/1/07, Mike Driscoll <mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Robert Dailey [mailto:rcdailey at gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:51 PM
> > > To: wxPython
> > > Subject: How to open an explorer window?
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I currently use wxPython on windows. Is there a way to make
> > > an explorer window open up, displaying the directory that
> > > contains a file? For example, if I have the path
> > > "C:\myfolder\subfolder\file.txt", I want to pass this path
> > > into a function that opens up an explorer window at the
> > > folder "C:\myfolder\subfolder\" with the file " file.txt"
> > > highlighted. Is this possible? I'm not sure if this is a
> > > wxPython ability or if the python libraries support this.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > This probably isn't a wxPython thing. I don't know if you can select a
> > file, but do open Windows Explorer to a specific directory, all you need
> > to do is use the subprocess module's Popen method.
> >
> > subprocess.Popen('explorer c:\\some\\path')
> >
> > I suppose you could use SendKeys to select a text file, but that's
> pretty
> > hackish.
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
> subprocess.Popen('explorer /select,c:\\path\\to\\file.py')
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