Announcing: python-ghostscript 0.3

[Aahz]

In article <alpine.DEB.1.10.1008121733280.3749 at localhost>,
Peter Kleiweg  <p.c.j.kleiweg at rug.nl> wrote:
>Hartmut Goebel schreef op de 12e dag van de oogstmaand van het jaar 2010:
>
>> Here is an example for how to use the high-level interface of
>> `python-ghostscript`. This implements a very basic ps2pdf-tool::
>> 
>>   import sys
>>   import ghostscript
>> 
>>   args = [
>>       "ps2pdf",	# actual value doesn't matter
>>       "-dNOPAUSE", "-dBATCH", "-dSAFER",
>>       "-sDEVICE=pdfwrite",
>>       "-sOutputFile=" + sys.argv[1],
>>       "-c", ".setpdfwrite",
>>       "-f",  sys.argv[2]
>>       ]
>> 
>>   ghostscript.Ghostscript(*args)
>
>How is this different from os.system(' '.join(args)) ?

You don't have problems with shell metacharacters.
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