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Fredrik Sjöstrand • • Edited

So I came across this and I had to see how short I could make it in Python. This was the shortest I could make it while keeping it nice looking. Here I use start chrome ... as I am running it on a Windows box.

import os
import sys
page = '' if len(sys.argv) < 2 else f'/t/{sys.argv[1]}'
os.system(f'start chrome https://dev.to{page}')