On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Varnon Varnon <varnonz...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sure this is a simple problem, or at least I hope it is, but I'm > not an experience programer and the solution eludes me. > > My realm of study is the behavioral sciences. I want to write a > program to help me record data from movie files. > Currently I have a program that can record the time of a keystroke so > that I can use that to obtain frequency, duration and other temporal > characteristics of the behaviors in my movies. > > What I really want, is a way to start playing the movie. Right now I > have to play the movie, then switch to my program. I would love it if > it were possible for me to have my program send a message to quicktime > that says "play." Or any other work around really. If python could > play the movie, that would work just as well. > > I'm using a mac btw. > > Any suggestions?
import subprocess subprocess.Popen(["open", "path/to/the/movie.file"]) Docs for the subprocess module: http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html For information on the Mac OS X "open" command, `man open` from Terminal. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
