On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:20 PM, boB Stepp wrote:
>
> Both you and Eryk seem to be speaking in terms of using
> subprocess.Popen() directly. So I think I need some clarification.
> At
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#using-the-subprocess-module
> it says:
>
> "The recommended
On 12/22/2016 03:54 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
On 22/12/16 03:37, Jim Byrnes wrote:
Python 3.4 on Ubuntu
If I was going to open a libreoffice calc file from the terminal I would
go: libreoffice --calc /home/path/to/myfile.ods.
How would I do this from Python?
Others have advised how to
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 10:50 PM, wrote:
> To my mind the more important thing is to use the "shell=False" version of
> Popen. os.system() inherently accepts a shell command string, which means
> you need to hand quote the /home/path/to/myfile.ods. But it is better to
> pass an array of strings:
On 22/12/16 03:37, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> Python 3.4 on Ubuntu
>
> If I was going to open a libreoffice calc file from the terminal I would
> go: libreoffice --calc /home/path/to/myfile.ods.
>
> How would I do this from Python?
Others have advised how to run the Libreoffice app from
within Python.
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:50 AM, wrote:
> BTW, the array form is Popen's default mode; sensibly you need to _ask_ to
> use a shell string with shell=True, because that is harder and more fragile.
Without shell=True, args as a string on POSIX is generally an error
because it will look for the ent
On 21Dec2016 21:54, boB Stepp wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
Python 3.4 on Ubuntu
If I was going to open a libreoffice calc file from the terminal I would go:
libreoffice --calc /home/path/to/myfile.ods.
How would I do this from Python?
My first thought was:
impo
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> Python 3.4 on Ubuntu
>
> If I was going to open a libreoffice calc file from the terminal I would go:
> libreoffice --calc /home/path/to/myfile.ods.
>
> How would I do this from Python?
My first thought was:
import os
os.system(insert_your_co
Python 3.4 on Ubuntu
If I was going to open a libreoffice calc file from the terminal I would
go: libreoffice --calc /home/path/to/myfile.ods.
How would I do this from Python?
Thanks, Jim
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