executing python scripts within wx frames

Philip Semanchuk philip at semanchuk.com
Tue Jul 13 17:54:43 EDT 2010


On Jul 13, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Astan Chee wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to make one of those frames thats similar to the wx  
> python demo where a folder is filled with demo wx python scripts and  
> there is one main script that opens the other ones in as different  
> items in a tree/notebook.
> I've gotten most of it figured out except the part where the scripts  
> are executed in a wx frame. The difference between what I'm trying  
> to do and the wx python demo one is that mine are generic scripts  
> that output the results to std out/error (or whatever gets displayed  
> in IDLE). Does anyone know how I can do this? Simulate a IDLE or  
> python shell in one of the frames thats basically the output of  
> whatever script has been selected to run?
> It would be better if the solution was platform independent too.

Hi Astan,
The subprocess module allows you to capture the stdin/stdout/stderr of  
a process that you launch. This sounds like what you're looking for.


bye
Philip




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