How to open an explorer window?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-08-01, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> First of all I don't mean to sound unappreciative, I apologize if I have
> offended. Secondly by "unclean" I mean that you're passing in an arbitrary
> string that must be parsed; whereas all of the data components in the string
> can be split up to represent objects and/or methods. For example,
> wx.FileDialog is an interface that has members functions that do various
> tasks. Creating a explorer window using that string is like creating a
> wx.FileDialog by doing: wx.MakeDlg( "-title 'Open a file' -extensions
> '*.txt,*.cpp' -button 'ok' -button 'cancel'" ). My basic point is that I was
> expecting a more object oriented way of opening an explorer window, much
> like wx.FileDialog in comparison.

Explorer isn't a wxWidgets object, it's an external executable
program.  External programs don't know anything about Python
objects, only the command-line string.

> wxWidgets is supposed to be platform independent,

You asked how to run a platform-specific program.

> which makes this task difficult.  

Not really.  "explorer" is a Windows program, so there's no
point it worrying about a platform-independant way to run it.

> I'm not an expert in any other operating system but Windows,
> but the way file explorer is interfaced through windows just
> seems like a very platform specific thing to me (other
> operating systems might do it completely differently I
> imagine).

You can't run explorer on other operating systems.

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