Re: Python File as the Default PDF handler for Windows

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On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Naftali <nmichalowsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> What I want to do is write a pdf handler to handle windows open instruction. In the script I would run a command line pdf unlocker on the file and open the unlocked file with adobe (or the like).
>
> I've googled and though I get tons of 'how to open pdf from a python script' I haven't found anything describing how to write and set up my python program to deal with the pdf hand-off from the OS.
>

Possibly the reason you've found nothing is that this isn't actually a
Python issue :) What you want to do is tell your OS that when you
double-click on a PDF, it should run this program. That's better
referred to as "file associations". Different versions of Windows put
that in different places, but poke around in your GUI or on the
internet and you should be able to find something on updating
associations.

If you're having trouble getting a Python program to run in that
situation, it may help to explicitly name a Python interpreter - an
executable binary.

ChrisA

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Python File as the Default PDF handler for Windows Naftali <nmichalowsky@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 14:04 -0700
  Re: Python File as the Default PDF handler for Windows Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-19 09:46 +1000
  Re: Python File as the Default PDF handler for Windows Naftali <nmichalowsky@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 18:03 -0700
    Re: Python File as the Default PDF handler for Windows Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-19 11:18 +1000
    Re: Python File as the Default PDF handler for Windows MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-06-19 02:39 +0100
    Re: Python File as the Default PDF handler for Windows Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-19 11:46 +1000
  Re: Python File as the Default PDF handler for Windows Naftali <nmichalowsky@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 18:22 -0700
  Re: Python File as the Default PDF handler for Windows Naftali <nmichalowsky@gmail.com> - 2015-06-23 06:39 -0700
    Re: Python File as the Default PDF handler for Windows Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-24 01:00 +1000
    Re: Python File as the Default PDF handler for Windows Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-06-23 16:12 -0400
    Re: Python File as the Default PDF handler for Windows Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-23 21:20 +0100

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