How to open a file with the standard application?

Question

My application prints a PDF to a temporary file. How can I open that file with the default application in Python?

I need a solution for

• Windows

Answer 1

A small correction is necessary for NicDumZ's solution to work exactly as given. The problem is with the use of 'is' operator. A working solution is:

if sys.platform == 'linux2':
    subprocess.call(["xdg-open", file])
else:
    os.startfile(file)

A good discussion of this topic is at Is there a difference between `==` and `is` in Python?.