1 """terminalcommand.py -- A minimal interface to Terminal.app.

     2 

     3 To run a shell command in a new Terminal.app window:

     4 

     5     import terminalcommand

     6     terminalcommand.run("ls -l")

     7 

     8 No result is returned; it is purely meant as a quick way to run a script

     9 with a decent input/output window.

    10 """

    11 

    12 #

    13 # This module is a fairly straightforward translation of Jack Jansen's

    14 # Mac/OSX/PythonLauncher/doscript.m.

    15 #

    16 

    17 from warnings import warnpy3k

    18 warnpy3k("In 3.x, the terminalcommand module is removed.", stacklevel=2)

    19 

    20 import time

    21 import os

    22 from Carbon import AE

    23 from Carbon.AppleEvents import *

    24 

    25 

    26 TERMINAL_SIG = "trmx"

    27 START_TERMINAL = "/usr/bin/open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app"

    28 SEND_MODE = kAENoReply  # kAEWaitReply hangs when run from Terminal.app itself

    29 

    30 

    31 def run(command):

    32     """Run a shell command in a new Terminal.app window."""

    33     termAddress = AE.AECreateDesc(typeApplicationBundleID, "com.apple.Terminal")

    34     theEvent = AE.AECreateAppleEvent(kAECoreSuite, kAEDoScript, termAddress,

    35                                      kAutoGenerateReturnID, kAnyTransactionID)

    36     commandDesc = AE.AECreateDesc(typeChar, command)

    37     theEvent.AEPutParamDesc(kAECommandClass, commandDesc)

    38 

    39     try:

    40         theEvent.AESend(SEND_MODE, kAENormalPriority, kAEDefaultTimeout)

    41     except AE.Error, why:

    42         if why[0] != -600:  # Terminal.app not yet running

    43             raise

    44         os.system(START_TERMINAL)

    45         time.sleep(1)

    46         theEvent.AESend(SEND_MODE, kAENormalPriority, kAEDefaultTimeout)

    47 

    48 

    49 if __name__ == "__main__":

    50     run("ls -l")