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I need to open an ArcGIS Pro project (.aprx) file in the ArcGIS Pro application inside of an arcpy script.

Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this?

I am using ArcGIS pro 2.4.1.

By open, I mean having the application actually open up on my screen. Similar to opening it from the start menu but utilizing the script instead.

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I have done something similar to open PDF files in Adobe Acrobat Reader in the past so I just looked up this answer to Opening PDF generated by Python AddIn using Report (*.rlf) file automatcally? and tested:

import os
myfile = r"C:\Temp\Projects\TestProject\TestProject.aprx"
os.system("start " + myfile)

and it worked.

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You can use:

aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject(r"C:\path\to\project.aprx")

For further things you can do with aprx refer to the documentation.

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  • I meant open as in have it pop up, as if the icon was double clicked. Let me update the question.
    – ketar
    Sep 26, 2019 at 19:50
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you can also use subprocess to do this. In my implementation, subprocess was a better choice.

import subprocess
myfile = r"C:\Temp\Projects\TestProject\TestProject.aprx"
subprocess.Popen([myfile], shell=True)

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