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Launch Telegram Desktop using python in Ubuntu – Telegram API

First of all, I am a beginner in the Linux environment

I have used the command below in python to open the Telegram Desktop in the Windows 10 environment and it works correctly:

subprocess.Popen('C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Telegram Desktop\Telegram.exe')

But now I want to do the same thing in python but in the Ubuntu environment. I have used the command below to do it but it does not work:

subprocess.Popen('\home\username\snap\telegram-desktop\2551\.local\share\TelegramDesktop')

Error = "No such a file or directory"

Maybe I have a problem with the installation path for the telegram. Consider that I found the path using <locate> command in terminal

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    Unix uses / as a path separator. You have \ instead which makes this look like one long file name, not a path.

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    Because of historical reasons, Windows uses the backslash symbol () as the path separator, while Linux/UNIX systems use the forward-slash (/).

    When a path begins with /, it is interpreted as an absolute path, otherwise, it is treated as a relative one (if it contains at least one forward-slash) or as a command which can be found by the PATH environment variable.

    When you write

    subprocess.Popen('\home\username\snap\telegram-desktop\2551\.local\share\TelegramDesktop')

    Python tries to find a file in the PATH with has this big 70-characters long name. If you want to specify an absolute file path instead, you should do

    subprocess.Popen('/home/username/snap/telegram-desktop/2551/.local/share/TelegramDesktop')

    If this still throws the FileNotFound exception, it’s most likely that you have just specified a wrong file path. If you’re having the Permission Denied error, you might not have the executing permission for this file (learn more by searching for "Linux execute permission")

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