[Tutor] How can I open and use gnome-terminal from a Python script?

[Jim Byrnes]

On 07/09/2014 04:16 PM, Walter Prins wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> On 9 July 2014 14:43, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> On 07/09/2014 04:27 AM, Walter Prins wrote:
>>
>>> I forgot to mention I am using Linux (Ubuntu 12.04).
>>>
>>
>> I am working my way through a book about breezypythongui which uses Python
>> 3, hence virtualenv.  I found that each time I started to work with it I
>> did the above 3 steps, I was just looking to automatic that repetitive task.
>>
>
> In that case you should put these commands in your .bashrc file so it gets
> set up as your user's default.  (The .bashrc file is somewhat like DOS's
> "autoexec.bat" file, if you're familiar with this, except each user has
> their own .bashrc.)  You can also create a shell script that does this for
> you.  (You can install "virtualenv wrapper" which gives you some further
> commands to make working with virtualenvs easier.)
>
> Regards
>
> Walter
>

I realize I could have used a shell script but since I was working with 
Python I thought I might learn some more Python by trying to use it.  As 
it turns out, I did learn quite a bit through this discussion.

Thanks for the pointer to virtualenv wrapper.

Regards,  Jim