On Jul 30, 2013 10:06 AM, "Chris Angelico" <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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?
Or for that matter, why not just make it a bash script instead of Python? It's kind of pointless to go to all the trouble of starting a Python interpreter just to have it start a subprocess.
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