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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:18:37 -0400
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On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 23:37:57 -0700, Benjamin Kaplan
<benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Levi Nie <levinie001@gmail.com> wrote:
> > my code:
> > import os
> > os.startfile(r'C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer.exe')
> >
> > the error:
> > os.startfile(r'C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer.exe')
> > WindowsError: [Error 2] : 'C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer.exe'
> >
> 
> There's no such thing as C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer.exe. You
> probably want C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe.

	Unless I have a weird computer, 

>>> import os
>>> os.startfile("iexplore")
>>> 

is sufficient to start internet explorer (why one would want to start IE
is a matter I won't touch).
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