Handling file open (mime type) with Python

Question

I created a file mymime.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
    <mime-type type="text/myapp">
        <comment>my format</comment>
        <glob pattern="*.myformat"/>
    </mime-type>
</mime-info>

and a file myapp.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=MyApp
GenericName=My Generic Name 
Comment=a comment
Exec=myapp
Icon=myicon
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
MimeType=text/myapp;
Name[en_US]=MyApp

Now when I right click on a file that has myformat ending, it suggests opening with MyApp, which is the behavior I was looking! But on the python3 code (I am using PyQt5), how do I take the loading argument when there is a file loaded like this? (right click open or double click on a file.myformat)

Wtf is happening with this site? Second question I asked placed on hold with little effort from a great number of people who are not interested in the least to help or offer some explanation. I have no idea how things work in any other distro or operating system, I have no idea how to set file types or whatever, this is made from observation of Ubuntu from having used it a long time. If you have a smart-ass comment, please do and help me to understand to which extent informing mime-type works. I just feel it won't work the same on Windows. — eri0o, Jun 16 '16 at 09:18
We closed this because it wasn't about Ubuntu enough - it was a programming language. — Tim, Jun 17 '16 at 22:54
@Tim you know you kind of have the power to move questions instead of closing. I don't have this power. — eri0o, Jun 17 '16 at 23:03
No I don't. Only moderators can migrate to other sites on the network. — Tim, Jun 17 '16 at 23:04
It has an accepted answer which was upvoted because it was useful. So no, you can't. — Tim, Jun 17 '16 at 23:23

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 16 '16 at 02:09

Ok, I solved this with the following code:

class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, filelist, **kwargs):

        openFileAtStart(filelist)

    def openFileAtStart(self, filelist):
        matching = [s for s in filelist if ".myformat" in s]
        if len(matching) > 0:
            self.openFileByName(matching)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    from sys import argv, exit
    from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication
    a = QApplication(argv)
    MainWindow(argv)

Basically, at opening, QApplication needs to read the argv arguments, and removes anything related to Qt. Than I pass the remaining arguments to my application ("MainWindow"), which will handle the list checking for items that match my format and will throw this list to my function that handles opening files.

Handling file open (mime type) with Python

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