To install this, do `python setup.py install`. This will install the `open` script in the same prefix as your python command. On Debian, this overwrites the console tool of the same name. Use the `--install-scripts` option of install to install this elsewhere. If you want, symlink `edit` and `convert` to the "open" script, those this will collide with applications from ImageMagick? and ee, respectively.

At the time of this writing, it requires Python 2.4 or later.