Open a text file using notepad as a help file in python?

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import webbrowser
webbrowser.open("file.txt")

Despite it’s name it will open in Notepad, gedit and so on. Never tried it but it’s said it works.

An alternative is to use 

osCommandString = "notepad.exe file.txt"
os.system(osCommandString)

or as subprocess:

import subprocess as sp
programName = "notepad.exe"
fileName = "file.txt"
sp.Popen([programName, fileName])

but both these latter cases you will need to find the native text editor for the given operating system first.

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