From 8e340e456d33819dd4ed757ba1fe741814122445 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergei Trofimov <sergei.trofimov@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:15:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added open_file to misc utils.

A function to open a file using an associated launcher in an OS-agnostic
way.
---
 wlauto/utils/misc.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/wlauto/utils/misc.py b/wlauto/utils/misc.py
index 279667ca..af9b7e5e 100644
--- a/wlauto/utils/misc.py
+++ b/wlauto/utils/misc.py
@@ -701,3 +701,16 @@ def unique(alist):
         if item not in result:
             result.append(item)
     return result
+
+
+def open_file(filepath):
+    """
+    Open the specified file path with the associated launcher in an OS-agnostic way.
+
+    """
+    if os.name == 'nt':  # Windows
+        return os.startfile(filepath)  # pylint: disable=no-member
+    elif sys.platform == 'darwin':  # Mac OSX
+        return subprocess.call(['open', filepath])
+    else:  # assume Linux or similar running a freedesktop-compliant GUI
+        return subprocess.call(['xdg-open', filepath])