Can Spyder programmatically open a python file given its absolute path?

Question

I'm using inspect.getfile() to get the python file directory of some class of interest, and then I would ideally like to be able to open it semi-automatically. As it stands, I copy paste the directory into the open window and it takes some navigating.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

You want the file to open in Spyder once you've found the path? — ATK7474
– ATK7474, Commented Apr 17, 2019 at 15:45
Yeah, I would like some easy way of going from a directory string to opening the file in spyder. Does that seem unreasonable? — user49404
– user49404, Commented Apr 17, 2019 at 15:52

ATK7474 · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-17 15:54:19Z

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Once you have the path to your file, you can use IPython magic command %edit path from the console or within a script in the following way:

from IPython import get_ipython

path = "C:/path/to/your/file.py"

ipython = get_ipython()

ipython.magic(f"%edit {path}")

answered Apr 17, 2019 at 15:54

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Carlos Cordoba Over a year ago

(Spyder maintainer here) Pretty clever!! I haven't thought about that.

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