[Python 2.4/2.5] subprocess module is sorely deficient?

[Ben Kaplan]

I don't know about all Linux distros, but my Ubuntu machine (8.04 Beta), has the 'TERM' (xterm) and 'COLORTERM' (gnome-terminal) keys in os.environ. You might be able to use that to ensure that the terminal is installed, but you should probably look at a couple of other popular distros first to make sure that the key is there.

----- Original Message ----
From: Harishankar <v.harishankar at gmail.com>
To: python-list at python.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 5:31:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Python 2.4/2.5] subprocess module is sorely deficient?

On Wednesday 23 Apr 2008 14:46:20 Christian Heimes wrote:
> Harishankar schrieb:
> > Is there any platform independent way to launch a terminal window from a
> > desktop (Windows, Linux, etc.)?
>
> No, there isn't. It usually not possible to create a graphical terminal
> window on a remote server.
>
> Christian

Ah, well, since my application is a desktop tool and it requires a GUI I'm 
doing something like this:

However, I have to then force the user to use xterm (which is a popular/common 
X Terminal)

if (sys.platform.startswith ('win'):
    # launch the windows cmd.exe with the command
    ...
else:
    # warn the user that xterm is required and then launch xterm
    ...

-- 
Regards,
V. Harishankar

http://hari.literaryforums.org
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