Unable To Launch Windows Shortcut

I'm trying to launch a windows with python. I've tried NUMEROUS approaches with os.system, subprocess.call, os.startfile etc. but I'm always getting an error saying that the path d

Solution 1:

According to this answer, you could resolve your link path, then call the resolved path

import sys
import win32com.client,win32api

shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")
shortcut = shell.CreateShortCut(r"D:\johan\programmering\Scripts\shortcuts\HWMonitor.lnk")
long_path = shortcut.Targetpath

but long_path may be a strange Windows path with a lot of junk in it, so if

subprocess.call([long_path])

doesn't work, you can resolve the long path in a short path (8.3 names):

short_path=win32api.GetShortPathName(long_path)

now do:

subprocess.call([short_path])