How to open a windows folder when clicking on some link on a HTML page using Python

Question

I am writing following program :

***import os
filepath=r\'C:\\TestData\\openfolder.html\'
abc=open(filepath,\'w\')
abc.writelines(\'&         


        

Answer 1

You can't. Clicking a link to a file in a browser will not launch the application associated with that file type on the OS. You can apparently do some funky stuff with JavaScript to launch particular filetypes with particular applications (see here: http://forums.devshed.com/asp-programming-51/launching-ms-word-to-open-file-from-a-hyperlink-55714.html) but apart from that the web browser is not the file browser.