"Brian van den Broek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > gedit is the default text editor on my ubuntu feisty system, so in > the > first instance, I've tried to do this with gedit. The > subprocess.call: > > >>> subprocess.call("gedit somefilename", shell=True) >
You should probably check the VISUAL and EDITOR environment settings to find out the users preferred editor. Traditionally VISUAL outguns EDITOR... > works just fine *provided* that no instance of gedit is running when > I > invoke .call. That must be a feature of gedit that it only allows one instance of gedit to run at a time. What happens if you try to invoke two instances from an OS prompt? > Interestingly, it works just fine if I use emacs in place of gedit, Yep, emacs is happy with multiple instances (or can use emacs server to ensure multiple calls go to the same client to save resources) > Is there any way to get it to work with gedit as it > is with emacs? Change gedit I suspect. At least its open source! > (In particular, I've no clue why gedit and emacs behave differently > in Almost certainly this is behaviour built into the application. subprocess.call is pretty much a straight equivalent to os.system and just returns whatever the app returns... -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor