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.