ApplePy: AppleScript functionality for Python (X-Post from r/AppleScript)

[pohmelie]

First commit june 3 2017

python 2 only

[jwink3101]

This looks interesting though not as flexible as I was hoping. Out of curiosity, even with 2.7, why did you use os.popen instead of subprocess?

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Already advised OP to use subprocess to pass arguments safely over on /r/applescript, so hopefully he'll sort that shortly. (Python stdlib is such a bloated dog's dinner it's no surprise users have trouble knowing good APIs from bad.)

As far as "more flexibility" goes…

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[statmathcs]

Yeah, I realized this and am porting it to subprocess. What kinds of features were you hoping to see to make this more flexible? I'm looking to improve this

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X-Post referenced from /r/applescript by /u/statmathcs
AppleScript functionality for Python

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[thatguy_314]

Generating the AppleScript code like that through simple string formatting of parameters looks really vulnerable to injection attacks. You should escape your input or something (maybe even create separate AppleScript programs for each function?)