Sending a command to a program using os.system (was [Tutor]: Using os.popen*() and os.spawn*() to interact with a DOS box)

[Kent Johnson]

Can you say something about why you want to do this? If you are trying to turn Audacity into a 
programmable sound processor, you might do better with something that is designed as a library for 
programmatic use. Googling 'python sound library' gives some promising hints. The Snack Sound 
Toolkit in particular. http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/

OTOH if what you want is some kind of macro system for Audacity then this won't help.

Kent


Orri Ganel wrote:
> I did some googling, and found this in the archives of this mailing list:
> 
> import os
> os.system('c:\\abaqus\\5.8-14\\abaqus.exe post')
> 
> , where post was a command, *not* a file.  Now, I tried something 
> similar, since essentially what I wish to be able to do is have Audacity 
> think I typed the 'R' key:
> 
> os.system(r'c:\progra~1\audacity/audacity.exe R')
> 
> All this managed to accomplish was Audacity opening (good) and a message 
> from Audacity (not good):
> 
> 
> 
> ("Could not open file: R" since i had to make it small to fit in the 
> email message comfortably)
> 
> Any ideas on a) why this didn't work and b) what to do to make something 
> similar work are greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Orri
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