import time

import ctypes

import ctypes.wintypes

SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS = 0x00000040

SEE_MASK_INVOKEIDLIST = 0x0000000C

class SHELLEXECUTEINFO(ctypes.Structure):

_fields_ = (

("cbSize",ctypes.wintypes.DWORD),

("fMask",ctypes.c_ulong),

("hwnd",ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE),

("lpVerb",ctypes.c_char_p),

("lpFile",ctypes.c_char_p),

("lpParameters",ctypes.c_char_p),

("lpDirectory",ctypes.c_char_p),

("nShow",ctypes.c_int),

("hInstApp",ctypes.wintypes.HINSTANCE),

("lpIDList",ctypes.c_void_p),

("lpClass",ctypes.c_char_p),

("hKeyClass",ctypes.wintypes.HKEY),

("dwHotKey",ctypes.wintypes.DWORD),

("hIconOrMonitor",ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE),

("hProcess",ctypes.wintypes.HANDLE),

)

ShellExecuteEx = ctypes.windll.shell32.ShellExecuteEx

ShellExecuteEx.restype = ctypes.wintypes.BOOL

sei = SHELLEXECUTEINFO()

sei.cbSize = ctypes.sizeof(sei)

sei.fMask = SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS | SEE_MASK_INVOKEIDLIST

sei.lpVerb = "properties"

sei.lpFile = "D:\\test.txt"

sei.nShow = 1

ShellExecuteEx(ctypes.byref(sei))

time.sleep(5)