Share Code: Laptop Lid State

[Ian Kelly]

On Jul 30, 2013 10:06 AM, "Chris Angelico" <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson
> <devyncjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Aloha everyone!
> >
> >    I attached a script that I thought I could share with everyone for
your
> > help. This Python3 script only works on Unix systems. It prints the
current
> > state of the lid. This can be used to make a script that performs some
> > action when the lid is closed or open. The script is licensed under
LGPLv3
> > and I will soon upload it to my Launchpad account. Enjoy!
>
> There's... no Python code in that. Why not simply
> open("/proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state") and read from it, instead of
> using cat and awk?

Or for that matter, why not just make it a bash script instead of Python?
It's kind of pointless to go to all the trouble of starting a Python
interpreter just to have it start a subprocess.
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