On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 15:35, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 08:48:26AM -0500, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
You're right - that's an excellent starting point. I found, and was hoping to use, python-xlib: https://github.com/python-xlib/python-xlib/tree/master/examples . But this is a more complete example. I'd definitely like to excise the perlcompat ... Anyway, between the two I might actually get somewhere with this idea. Thanks!
I find it somewhat horrible that someone even thought to make a perlcompat module for python.
That's not the worst of it: I thought "why did he use 'perlcompat' just for 'die' and 'getopts'?" So I replaced those commands with the Python equivalents and removed the library. Only to discover that "x11utils" requires "perlcompat". Seriously? And "pip3" doesn't even know it's a dependency so you have to install it by hand. Kinda unimpressive. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com