Problem Formulation
Given a Windows operating system on which you have the Microsoft Outlook email program installed.
How to open Microsoft Outlook using only a function call in your Python script?
Solution: os.startfile(‘outlook’)
The easiest way to open Outlook on Windows using only a short and concise Python One-Liner is to use the os.startfile('outlook') function call from the os module.
import os
os.startfile("outlook")
This opens Microsoft Outlook on your computer in a separate process:
You can close it by closing Outlook regularly. You cannot close it by terminating the Python application because it’s already terminated. The Outlook application runs in a separate process independent of your Python app.
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