#🔒 How to open .py file within script

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willow drum
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Hi! To kleep m,y request as simple as possible, I'm trying to have a python script open another python script then close itself. It doesn't need to have .read or anything. heres some things I tried and why they failed. For context, "destination" is the path of a "test.ico" file for now so I can see if it works or not. The final "destination" will be a .py file.

open(destination) # Doesn't open the file in IDLE, doesn't when I just run the program and exits withoutbeing commanded to excit

import subprocess
subprocess.run(destination) # prints error "OSError: [WinError 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application"
subprocess.Popen(destination) # same error

import os
os.startfile(destination) # Worked once but for some reason now refuses to work

import os
os.system(destination) # refuses to work, prints no errors

exec(open(destination).read()) # works but waits for the app to close before continuing execution of current code, which I don't want as I want it to quit
exec(open(destination)) # prints error: "TypeError: exec() arg 1 must be a string, bytes or code object"
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@willow drum

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faint shell
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not sure what you're trying to do -- you want the first script to start the second script running?

willow drum
faint shell
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any reason you can't just use subprocess.run?

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Did you say something about wanting the first script to go away before the second one finishes?

willow drum
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import subprocess
subprocess.run(destination) # prints error "OSError: [WinError 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application"
subprocess.Popen(destination) # same error
willow drum
faint shell
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try this ```py
import subprocess
import sys

subprocess.run([sys.executable, destination])

willow drum
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Tried it via IDLE but it prints no errors and does nothing but when running the .py it does this

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faint shell
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those screenshots don't seem to relate to my suggestion

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in any case, stick another \ before the \Downloads

willow drum
faint shell
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or better yet, just use single forward slashes

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fix the syntax error first; you haven't even gotten to the line of code that I suggested

willow drum
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Still seems to give the same error when I appended it to "\\Downloads\\" Ill try with forward slashes now

faint shell
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wait, you can't "run" an .ico file.

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What are you trying to do?

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Are you trying to display the icon on the screen, or start a program that will edit the icon?

willow drum
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Give me a little bit sorry, may be a while

faint shell
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ok, so try this ```py
subprocess.run(["cmd", "/c", "start", destination])

willow drum
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So I made a python script that just prints "hello world" and waits for 10 seconds. When I use subprocess.run([sys.executable, destination]) it opens the "hello world" script inside the first scrip which isn't what I want

willow drum
faint shell
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winter surge
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