On Apr 30, 11:29 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -
Opening web pages cross-platform can be done with the "webbrowser" module: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-webbrowser.html Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list