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anyone knows how to launch an application, for example, a .exe, in mac??

this code works for me in ubuntu, i tried it in mac but its not working:

os.system('gnome-open ' + path)
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This link says:

Simply put, the command

gnome-open
opens the item specified by the url with the preferred GNOME app for that file/mime-type.

In a sense, this command resembles the universal “open” command on Mac OSX.

So Mac is supposed to have open command

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