如何为任何用户打开特定路径中的 Excel 文件？

Question

Goodafternoon,

Im opening an Excel file using Python:

absolutePath = Path('C:\\Users\\jimmy\\Downloads\\Demo.csv').resolve()
os.system(f'start excel.exe "{absolutePath}"')

Sadly this only works for me, because my username is jimmy, for my colleague it doesn't work under his username.

How can I use this code on other computers with other usernames?

Answer 1

Use relative paths to your python script:

import os
current_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
path_csv = os.path.join(current_dir, "Demo.csv")

absolutePath = Path(path_csv).resolve()
os.system(f'start excel.exe "{absolutePath}"')

Then place your python script in the same directory than your csv file.

Answer 2

You can get the username of the currently logged in user via os and then put that into the path string

import os
username = os.getenv("username")

absolutePath = Path(f'C:\\Users\\{username}\\Downloads\\Demo.csv').resolve()
os.system(f'start excel.exe "{absolutePath}"')