In article 
<a24dfb64-8a67-4fe6-88e9-a26a2a14d...@securityevaluators.com>,
 Charles Miller <cmil...@securityevaluators.com> wrote:
> How can you run the following Applescript in py-appscript?  I've tried  
> everything I can think of.
> 
> tell application "Finder" to open application file id  
> "com.apple.Preview"
> 
> Obviously, I just want to launch Preview from within py-appscript.  I  
> really want to do this in py-appscript as opposed to just popen/system  
> or something because I'd like to eventually do it remotely (without  
> ssh) so I can run Preview remotely and operate on the GUI remotely  
> using applescript.

You don't need to involve the Finder:

>>> from appscript import *
>>> preview = app(id='com.apple.Preview')
>>> preview.run()
>>> preview.open('/Developer/About Xcode Tools.pdf')

http://appscript.sourceforge.net/py-appscript/doc/appscript-manual/07_app
licationobjects.html

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 n...@acm.org

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