Launching an independent Python program in a cross-platform way (including mac)

[André]

On Apr 30, 10:59 am, Kevin Walzer <k... at codebykevin.com> wrote:
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>
> 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
>
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