Re: Writing an interactive function to accept a string argument, then call a Python script?

["Endless Story" <usable.thought@gmail.com>]

On Feb 10, 8:49 am, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Endless Story wrote:
> (defun trivial-but-reasonably-valuable (string-to-match)
>    (interactive "sMatch: ")
>    (shell-command (format "/home/me/myscript.py %s"
>                          (shell-quote-argument string-to-match))))

Thanks! Below is what I ended up writing (after only 90 minutes of
Googling!!) - now I'm going to try your suggestion of adding shell-
quote-argument (which I gather from the doco does nice things like
escape characters as necessary). Maybe it will obviate the need to
remind the user (me) to use double quotes around multi-word input.
Boy, lisp is SO different than anything else I'm used to ...

(defun wl-psb (searchname)
    (interactive"MName to search for, double-quoted: ")
    (shell-command (concat "python c:/cygwin/home/texas/name_search.py
" searchname)))