Program help

[FX]

can anybody write a code for a program that reads from a
/location/file & according to file contents, it execute script. e.g. if
file contains "mp" it runs media player.
I hope the code is small .. plz help me out!

[Jeff Schwab]

FX wrote:

can anybody write a code for a program that reads from a
/location/file & according to file contents, it execute script. e.g. if
file contains "mp" it runs media player.
I hope the code is small .. plz help me out!

You might be interested in the FileInfo class, defined and thoroughly
explained in _Dive Into Python_.

http://diveintopython.org/object_ori...ork/index.html

[Mike Meyer]

"FX" <ta*****@gmail.com> writes:

can anybody write a code for a program that reads from a
/location/file & according to file contents, it execute script. e.g. if
file contains "mp" it runs media player.
I hope the code is small .. plz help me out!

open <URL: http://www.mired.org/downloads/ > will use the extension to
figure out what to do. It's relatively small.

<mike
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[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:57:29 -0700, FX wrote:

can anybody write a code for a program that reads from a
/location/file & according to file contents, it execute script. e.g. if
file contains "mp" it runs media player.
I hope the code is small .. plz help me out!

There are lots of people who can do that. Are you asking them to do it for
free, or are you looking to hire a Python developer to design, build and
test your program?

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Steven.