Thank you, that worked brilliantly! Neither threading.Timer nor ui.delay were working properly; they just hung the program.<Br>
<code>
v.close()<Br>
time.sleep(1)
<br>console.quicklook('file.ics')</code>
<Br>worked perfectly though.

@ccc
Should the parameter under the parse_extension function be 'name'? I get an error that says the global 'url' is not defined.