[Pythonmac-SIG] [MachOPython] starting an application from a Python script?

[Jack Jansen]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 09:33 , Pieter Claerhout wrote:

> You basically will have to use the findertools.launch function. It
> takes one argument, which is the path of the application. If you know
> the creator code of the application, you can do the following thing:
>
>     f = macfs.FindApplication('8BIM')
>     fPhotoshop = findertools.launch(f)

That's one way, but there are many others. Ideally you would use Launch 
Services, but that isn't available in Python yet (it's fairly high on my 
todo list, but if someone wants to beat me to it: be my guest!). But 
what will also work is using system() on the binary underlying the .app, 
as in
system("/Applications/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/python script.py")

And, actually, for the application given (opening a web browser) I think 
you should go with the platform standard and use Internet Config to get 
at the users' preferred web browser. Applications that have their whole 
own set of preferences and ignore the system preferences are not a good 
idea, I think.

And, actually, what is the problem with os.spawnv()? It works fine for 
me...
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