stackoverflow January 19, 2026 Rep: 1

Open selected file with application? Like opening a .blend file from the file explorer

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January 19, 2026 Score: 1 Rep: 3,854 Quality: Low Completeness: 60%

os.startfile will open any file with its default application, so there would be no need to know where blender is located:

import os
os.startfile(pathtoblender_file)

January 19, 2026 Score: 0 Rep: 2,639 Quality: Low Completeness: 30%

For future reference, is this OS dependent? Because it in Linux I got AttributeError: module 'os' has no attribute 'startfile'.

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