Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python

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From	Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
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Subject	Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python
Date	Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:06:21 -0400
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In article <54049ab7$0$29972$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:

> import tempfile
> 
> def edit(editor, content=''):
>     f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w+')
>     [...]
>     command = editor + " " + f.name
>     status = os.system(command)

Hmmm.  Didn't we just have a thread about passing external data to 
shells?

$ mkdir '/tmp/;rm -rf;'
$ TMPDIR='/tmp/;rm -rf;' python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 20:03:06) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tempfile
>>> f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
>>> f.name
'/tmp/;rm -rf;/tmpW8HFTr'
>>>

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Editing text with an external editor in Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-02 02:11 +1000
  Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 02:35 +1000
    Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-02 04:23 +1000
      Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-09-01 15:06 -0500
        Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-09-02 08:35 +0000
          Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 18:45 +1000
            Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-09-03 08:06 +0000
          Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-09-02 17:14 -0400
          Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-03 07:36 +1000
          Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-09-02 21:49 -0400
          Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 22:03 -0500
      Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 08:30 +1000
  Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-09-01 13:06 -0400
    Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-02 04:02 +1000
      Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-09-02 08:14 +1000
        Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-02 13:18 +1000
      Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 08:25 +1000
  Re: Editing text with an external editor in Python gschemenauer3@gmail.com - 2014-09-01 19:24 -0700

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