launch

This function launches the given URL (or filename) in the default viewer application for this file type. If this is an executable, it might launch the executable in a new session. The return value is the exit code of the launched application. Usually, 0 indicates success.

def launch(
    url: str,
    wait: bool = False,
    locate: bool = False
) - > int

This function launches the given URL (or filename) in the default viewer application for this file type. If this is an executable, it might launch the executable in a new session. The return value is the exit code of the launched application. Usually, 0 indicates success.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
url	str	URL or filename of the thing to launch.
wait	bool = False	Wait for the program to exit before returning. This only works if the launched program blocks. In particular, xdg-open on Linux does not block.
locate	bool = False	If this is set to True, then instead of launching the application associated with the URL, it will attempt to launch a file manager with the file located. This might have weird effects if the URL does not point to the filesystem.

Returns

Type	Description
int	The exit code of the launched application, where 0 typically indicates success.