Re: [Python 2.4/2.5] subprocess module is sorely deficient?

[Harishankar]

On Wednesday 23 Apr 2008 15:11:21 Ben Kaplan wrote:

I don't know about all Linux distros, but my Ubuntu machine (8.04 Beta),
has the 'TERM' (xterm) and 'COLORTERM' (gnome-terminal) keys in os.environ.
You might be able to use that to ensure that the terminal is installed, but
you should probably look at a couple of other popular distros first to make
sure that the key is there.

This is set on Debian too. Thanks. I should be able to use this environment
variable on most Linux distributions, I suspect.
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[Paul Boddie]

On 23 Apr, 13:17, Harishankar <[e-mail]:

On Wednesday 23 Apr 2008 15:11:21 Ben Kaplan wrote:

I don't know about all Linux distros, but my Ubuntu machine (8.04 Beta),
has the 'TERM' (xterm) and 'COLORTERM' (gnome-terminal) keys in os.environ.
You might be able to use that to ensure that the terminal is installed, but
you should probably look at a couple of other popular distros first to make
sure that the key is there.

This is set on Debian too. Thanks. I should be able to use this environment
variable on most Linux distributions, I suspect.

Here on RHEL 4, COLORTERM has an empty value. I suppose that the
freedesktop.org standards should cover this kind of thing, and there
are some scripts out there which attempt to provide cross-desktop
support on Free Software desktops:

http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/XdgUtils

Similarly, the desktop module should provide support for various
desktop features, but opening command line windows or terminals isn't
yet possible:

http://www.python.org/pypi/desktop

It'd be interesting to know if we could find out (or make up) reliable
ways of opening the user's preferred terminal application.

Paul