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Re: Win32 - how do I execute a shell command?
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Jason Rumney |
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Re: Win32 - how do I execute a shell command? |
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Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:36:25 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) |
Paul Moore <pf_moore@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> I have a Python script I want to execute and obtaing the stdout. In
> XEmacs, I can do so simply using
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> (shell-command-to-string (expand-file-name "~/fortune.py"))
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> This doesn't work in Gnu Emacs, basically because expand-file-name
> returns filenames with *forward* slashes, which the shell doesn't
> like.
Are you sure the shell doesn't like the forward slashes? The Windows
command-line will not automatically execute Python scripts AFAIK, so
your command line will either have to start with the Python
interpretor, or "start ", which invokes the Explorer association.