The following program does not work if you uncomment #lis =
["xmms2"] + list(args)
Evidently Python is opting for the nullary constructor list() as
opposed to the other one which takes a sequence. But no newcomer would
know this. And the Python docs dont give a good example of dealing with
taking a sequence of args and converting it to a list.
I must've spent 40 minutes looking through my ora books, googling and
irc'ing in vane on this.
import subprocess
def xmms2(*args):
#lis = ["xmms2"] + list(args)
lis = ["xmms2"] + [a for a in args]
output = subprocess.Popen(lis,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
return output.splitlines()
def list():
lis = xmms2('list')
playtime_str = lis.pop()
(total, playtime, time_str) = playtime_str.split()
(h,m,s) = time_str.split(':')
lis.pop()
return dict( playlist = lis, playtime = (int(h), int(m), int(s)) )
if __name__ == '__main__':
list()
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