Use Python to launch Excel file

Question

when i try os.system(\"open \" + \'myfile.xlsx\')
i get the output \'0\'

similarly, trying
os.system(\"start excel.exe myfil

Answer 1

If you only want to open the excel application you could use subprocess:

import subprocess
subprocess.check_call(['open', '-a', 'Microsoft Excel'])

You can also use os and open a specific file:

import os
os.system("open -a 'path/Microsoft Excel.app' 'path/file.xlsx'")

If you on other hand want to open an excel file within python and modify it there's a number of packages to use as xlsxwriter, xlutils and openpyxl where the latter is prefered by me.

Another note, if you're on mac the excel application isn't .exe