#subprocess

A useful little Python secret ? I have stumbled upon what looks like an undocumented feature in the built in Python webbrowser module. I have found it to be very useful when making my programs cross platform.

A Useful Little Python Secret?

Subtitled: Well I hope it is, or I am going to look a right idiot… again!

This Is All TIM’s Fault

Whilst updating TIM for my last post, and trying to make it cross platform on Windows and Linux, I came across several problems that I am now looking at closer to try resolve properly, rather than the stop-gap solutions I used just to finish off the update.

One of…

Have an interesting case I want to share and save for future. One small problem in this system: https://github.com/trianglesis/BMC_TPL_IDE is showing when some process is running and was not hanged up. Sometimes we need to run a huge amount of checks and tests and would be great to know if something hangs before killing it mannually. I used different scenarios and mostly a module pregressbar2,…

Series of brainstorm sketches in conjunction with the ‘abstraction of natural elements’ plaster project.

Subject of choice: Rib cage

mutter.py

import sys import subprocess import time mybody = "echo '" + sys.argv[1].strip() + "' " mytag = " -s '" + sys.argv[2].strip() + "' " for line in sys.stdin: cmd = mybody + "| mutt [email protected]" + mytag + "-a '" + line.strip() + "'" print cmd subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True) time.sleep(2.1)

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