From: jasonr (Jason Rumney) @ f2s.com
Subject: Re: Win32 - how do I execute a shell command?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:36:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uk6wm1oo6.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: k6wmms1a.fsf@yahoo.co.uk
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
>
> (shell-command-to-string (expand-file-name "~/fortune.py"))
>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-29 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-29 21:18 Win32 - how do I execute a shell command? Paul Moore
2004-07-29 21:36 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2004-07-30 19:43 ` Paul Moore
2004-07-30 7:15 ` Mathias Dahl
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