How to run an AppleScript from within a Python script?
The questions says it all.. (On a Mac obviously)
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this nice article suggests the simple solution
cmd = """osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to sleep'"""
def stupidtrick():
os.system(cmd)
though today you'd use the subprocess module instead of os.system, of course.
Be sure to also check page 2 of the article for many more info and options, including appscript.
answered Aug 15, 2010 at 21:24
Alex Martelli
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Ned Deily
If you going to do any kind of non-trivial Apple Event scripting from Python, you should be using appscript. It's well-designed, mature, and well-supported.
Alex Martelli
@Ned, sure, but for such a simple, specific purpose as calling a simple bit of applescript, the "stupid trick" of
osascript -e and subprocess.call, as suggested in the article's page 1 (well the article as I mentions uses the old os.system, but that's a detail;-) might suffice.Ned Deily
Oh, Alex, I certainly wasn't disagreeing with you!
andrewb
appscript isn't supported anymore unfortunately
speedyrazor
What do you mean "it's not supported anymore"?
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A subprocess version which allows running an original apple script as-is, without having to escape quotes and other characters which can be tricky. It is a simplified version of the script found here which also does parametrization and proper escaping (Python 2.x).
import subprocess
script = '''tell application "System Events"
activate
display dialog "Hello Cocoa!" with title "Sample Cocoa Dialog" default button 2
end tell
'''
proc = subprocess.Popen(['osascript', '-'],
stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
stdout_output = proc.communicate(script)[0]
print stdout_output
NOTE: If you need to execute more than one script with the same Popen instance then you'll need to write explicitly with
proc.stdin.write(script)and read withproc.stdout.read()becausecommunicate()will close the input and output streams.
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gbonetti
In python 3 this would not work, an additional parameter universal_newlines=True on the popen is needed. See stackoverflow.com/a/45133926/1534775
I got the Output folks... Here it's following:
import subprocess
import sys
for i in range(int(sys.argv[1])):
ip = str(sys.argv[2])
username = str(sys.argv[3])
pwd = str(sys.argv[4])
script = '''tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script with command "cd Desktop && python test_switch.py {ip} {username} {pwd}"
delay 15
end tell
'''
proc = subprocess.Popen(['osascript', '-'],
stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
stdout_output = proc.communicate(script.format(ip=ip, username=username, pwd=pwd))[0]
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I was pretty frustrated at the lack of detail in Apple's own documentation regarding how to do this AND to also pass in arguments. I had to send the desired arg (in this case a zoom id) as a string otherwise the argument didn't come through to the applescript app
Here's my code running from python:
f = script if os.path.exists(script) else _tempfile()
if not os.path.exists(script):
open(f,'w').write(script)
args = ["osascript", f, str(zoom_id)]
kwargs = {'stdout':open(os.devnull, 'wb'),'stderr':open(os.devnull, 'wb')}
#kwargs.update(params)
proc = subprocess.Popen(args,**kwargs)
and here is my applescript:
on run argv
set zoom_id to 0
zoom_id = item 1 in argv
tell application "zoom.us"
--do stuff
end tell
end run
