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MacPython os.system like?

Glitch bwglitch at hotpop.com
Mon Feb 24 07:06:25 EST 2003 
"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <me at privacy.net> wrote in message news:<b3491c$1iksr8$1 at ID-169208.news.dfncis.de>...
> Andres Rosado wrote:
> > I am trying to port my application (pySignature) to Mac. Almost 
> > everything works nice, except the os.system call. After researching on 
> > Google, MacPython doesn't support this call. Is there any way to execute 
> > a program in Mac OS 9.x without using os.system?
> 
> There are ways, yes. One way is to send an AppleEvent
> to the Finder asking it to launch the program. MacPython
> comes with some modules for AppleEvent support, but
> it'll take some work to figure out how to use them.
> 
> Another way would be to make the appropriate call
> to the Process Manager directly, but I've never tried
> to do that, and I don't know if it's even exposed in
> MacPython's MacOS modules.
> 
> Either way, you're not going to get all of the
> functionality of the Unix system() function. For
> one thing, MacOS 9 has no notion of standard input
> or output, and the only things you can pass as
> arguments to a program when launching it are files
> (no options or other arbitrary strings).


Thanks a lot! I'll be checking this out.

Andres
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