On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 17:00 +0100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson > <devyncjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Aloha everyone! > > I attached a script that I thought I could share with everyone for your > > help. This Python3 script only works on Unix systems. It prints the current > > state of the lid. This can be used to make a script that performs some > > action when the lid is closed or open. The script is licensed under LGPLv3 > > and I will soon upload it to my Launchpad account. Enjoy! > There's... no Python code in that. Why not simply > open("/proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state") and read from it, instead of > using cat and awk?
The correct way to implement this is to use the power management services available on the System D-Bus. Integrating with D-Bus from Python is easy! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list