Re: use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email

2016-01-12 Thread eryk sun
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Is that properly escaped to handle any arbitrary URL? I doubt it. subprocess doesn't know how to quote a command line for the Windows shell, which doesn't follow the rules used by subprocess.list2cmdline. To make matters worse, one often h

Re: use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email

2016-01-12 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 12.01.16 um 18:52 schrieb Chris Angelico: On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:37 AM, eryk sun wrote: start is a shell command. It also has a quirk that the first quoted argument is the window title. Here's the correct call: subprocess.check_call('start "title" "%s"' % url, shell=True) Is that

Re: use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email

2016-01-12 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:37 AM, eryk sun wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:51 AM, jkn wrote: >>> I happy to carve some code without using urllib, but I am not clear what I >>> actually need to do to 'open' such a URL using this protoco

Re: use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email

2016-01-12 Thread eryk sun
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:51 AM, jkn wrote: >> I happy to carve some code without using urllib, but I am not clear what I >> actually need to do to 'open' such a URL using this protocol. FWIW I can >> paste >> this URL into Windows Explor

Re: use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email

2016-01-12 Thread jkn
Hi Chris On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 5:11:18 PM UTC, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:51 AM, jkn wrote: > > I happy to carve some code without using urllib, but I am not clear what I > > actually need to do to 'open' such a URL using this protocol. FWIW I can > > paste > > t

Re: use Python and an outlook: protocol URL to bring up a specific email

2016-01-12 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:51 AM, jkn wrote: > I happy to carve some code without using urllib, but I am not clear what I > actually need to do to 'open' such a URL using this protocol. FWIW I can paste > this URL into Windows Explorer and I get the referenced email popping up ;-) > What happens i