I would like to see this as a command along with something to open web pages.. Just one command instead of trying to figure out all the different op systems. look forward to seeing your code
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dex-tracker On Apr 30, 9:40 am, André <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 30, 10:59 am, Kevin Walzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > > There are extension modules on the Mac for integrating Python and > > AppleScript (the best one is appscript). However, if you want to limit > > yourself to core Python, your best best is osascript, a system > > command-tool that lets you call AppleScript code with arguments from > > other programs. This can be called via os.system. > > > The basis syntax for doing this from Python might look something like this: > > > os.system('osascript -e \'tell app \"Terminal\" to activate\'') > > > This simply launches Terminal. Note that you have to deal with quoting > > issues. The equivalent syntax from AppleScript would be: > > > tell app "Terminal" to activate > > > If you want to Terminal to run a command-line program from AppleScript, > > you can do this with the "do script" command. Code to do this could look > > something like this: > > > myscript = "python -e foo.py" > > os.system('osascript -e '\tell app \"Terminal"\ to do script %s\'', > > myscript) > > > I haven't tested this, but you get the basic idea--define the script and > > command-line paramaters in a string, then pass that to > > AppleScript/osascript as a variable. This code should launch Terminal, > > then run the external Python script. > > > HTH, > > Thanks. I managed to get something like this to work. Later, I'll > post it as an example to this thread so that other can use if for a > reference if needed. > > André > > > > > Kevin > > > -- > > Kevin Walzer > > Code by Kevinhttp://www.codebykevin.com- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list