[Pythonmac-SIG] reposting: Q: emulating os.system() on macs?

[Jack Jansen]

> [BTW, the application I need to run is nsgmls, a SGML-based validator
> (http://www.jclark.com/sp/). ]

And are you going to port nsgmls yourself, or is it already available for the 
mac? If you're doing the port yourself you could think of wrapping the whole 
thing up in a Python extension module, so you don't have to fire up a separate 
program at all.

If you have a port of nsgmls and it understands the "Open Document" Appleevent 
you can use the applescript modules to first ask the finder to open the 
application (see aetools.TalkTo for sample code) and then use the standard 
scripting methods to ask the application to open the file (an example is in 
the Mac:Demo folder). And if nsgmls has a nice unique signature you can even 
skip the first step if your input file has the correct creator: send the "open 
document" command to the finder and it'll open the app as well.
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