On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Aloha everyone! > > I attached a script that I thought I could share with everyone for your > help. This Python3 script only works on Unix systems. It prints the current > state of the lid. This can be used to make a script that performs some > action when the lid is closed or open. The script is licensed under LGPLv3 > and I will soon upload it to my Launchpad account. Enjoy!
There's... no Python code in that. Why not simply open("/proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state") and read from it, instead of using cat and awk? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list