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

Question

I would like to give users of my simple program the opportunity to open a help file to instruct them on how to fully utilize my program. Ideally i would like to have a littl

Answer 1

os.startfile('file.txt')

From the python docs:

this acts like double clicking the file in Windows Explorer, or giving the file name as an argument to the start command from the interactive command shell: the file is opened with whatever application (if any) its extension is associated.

This way if your user changed their default text editor to, for example, notepad++ it would use their preference instead of notepad.