Calling Mac programs from Python instead of from AppleScript

[Kevin Walzer]

dvschorre at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> When I'm running Script Editor, I can get Maya to draw a sphere by
> typing:
> 
> tell application "Maya"
> 	execute "sphere"
> end tell
> 
> When I try this using Python, I get this error message:
> 
> IDLE 1.2.2
>>>> app('Maya').execute('sphere')
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
>     app('Maya').execute('sphere')
> NameError: name 'app' is not defined
> 
> Maybe I need to load some libraries first.
> 
> Please help me to get started.
> 
> Thanks
>  Dewey V. Schorre
> 

Take a look at appscript:

http://appscript.sourceforge.net/

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Kevin Walzer
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