Re: Writing an interactive function to accept a string argument, then call a Python script?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Endless Story wrote:
> I have hacked out a Python script to do something trivial but
> reasonably valuable to me (search a bunch of files for a matching
> string pulled from another file). Well, okay, now I want to call this
> script from the Emacs minibuffer ... but my understanding of lisp is
> pretty poor, which is why I wrote the script in Python to begin with!
> (took me a couple of hours instead of a month).
>
> Can anyone give me a simple recipe for an interactive function that
> will do the following:
>
> 1) In the minibuffer, prompt me for a string to enter.
> 2) Feed the string as the sole argument to the Python script (let's
> say it's at /home/me/myscript.py).
> 3) Display the return value in the minibuffer


(defun trivial-but-reasonably-valuable (string-to-match)
  (interactive "sMatch: ")
  (shell-command (format "/home/me/myscript.py %s"
                         (shell-quote-argument string-to-match))))

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA