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

[Eric_Dexter at msn.com]

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 <andre.robe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> > The basis syntax for doing this from Python might look something like this:
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> > os.system('osascript -e \'tell app \"Terminal\" to activate\'')
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> > This simply launches Terminal. Note that you have to deal with quoting
> > issues. The equivalent syntax from AppleScript would be:
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> > tell app "Terminal" to activate
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> > 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:
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> > myscript = "python -e foo.py"
> > os.system('osascript -e '\tell app \"Terminal"\ to do script %s\'',
> > myscript)
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> > 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.
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> > HTH,
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> 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.
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