Open a Word Document Using Python [duplicate]

Question

I am trying to automatically open a Word Document in Python. I am very new to programming and I heard this site helped people who had trouble with it.

I have looked at various questions and have found this:

DummyFile = path_to_docx
with open(DummyFile) as f:
    source_stream = io(f.read())
document = doc(source_stream)
source_stream.close()

But when I run it, I get:

 UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x90 in position 74: character maps to <undefined>

It seems that this code is not what I want. I believe it is trying to read my document and put it into a variable. Not what I want. I want the command, that when executed, will open the word document in Microsoft Word

Expected Result:

Word Document opens in Microsoft Word, as can be seen here:

Answer 1

On Windows, you can use os.startfile:

import os
os.startfile('C:\\Path\\To\\file.docx')

For other operating systems, see this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/435669/101087