Opening a random file only knowing the extension name anywhere on the computer in python

Question

I want to convert my python program to a exe file but then i want to be able to click on a file with a certain extension such as .ftf and then be able to open the file in my python program and read the contents. I am also on a windows 10 computer that can't use cmd but can use some os module commands So ive done a bit of research and im still not clear in how to get the file name and path of the extension file i want to run with the python file but i am converting the python file to a exe so how do i gte the file name and path of the extension file open it then read its contents as a exe file. So i tried to convert my porgram to EXE and run the extension file with th exe version of my program and i got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Users\Dextron\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\__startup__.py"
, line 14, in run
    module.run()
  File "D:\Users\Dextron\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py", li
ne 26, in run
    exec(code, m.__dict__)
  File "BashFile.py", line 18, in <module>
  File "D:\Users\Dextron\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x90 in position 2: character maps to <undefined>

I have used cx_Freeze to convert my program. Here is my setup file

from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
import os

base = None

executables = [Executable("BashFile.py", base=base)]
packages = ["os", "colorama", "datetime", "time", "socket", "random", "sys", "ctypes"]
options = {
    'build_exe': {
        'packages':packages,
    },
}

os.environ['TCL_LIBRARY'] = r'D:\Users\26099\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\tcl\tcl8.6'
os.environ['TK_LIBRARY'] = r'D:\Users\26099\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\tcl\tk8.6'

setup(
    name = "BashFile",
    options = options,
    version = "1.0",
    description = "A Simple Python program made to replace CMD",
    executables = executables
)

I dont think i can just set the extension to run with the program because i want to read the file that ive ran with that program and then run the program — Dextron, Feb 10 '19 at 05:18
When a file is clicked on Windows, launches the associated program and passes the name of the file in `sys.argv`. — Dan D., Feb 10 '19 at 05:22
Oh i didn't think it did something like that. So how would i get the file name then — Dextron, Feb 10 '19 at 05:32
So if sys.argv gets me the name do i just have to convert it to a string and then open the file — Dextron, Feb 10 '19 at 06:46

Opening a random file only knowing the extension name anywhere on the computer in python

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