Re: [SoX-users] sox & python (with subprocess)

[kevin p. <kp...@me...>]

On Mar 29, 2010, at 3:52 AM, Andreas Mock wrote:

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> 
> there was a reason for showing you my version with every command line argument being one item in python list.
> As soon as you work with shell=True you get all evil of handling shell special characters. And it you want
> to do a generic os.walk you NEVER know how the files are named.

Ah... I never considered that. Thanks for the additional explanation. That idea hadn't even occurred to me.

> INHO the whole thing has an advantage:
> You can prepare the constant caling options once and only change the command line arguments
> which change (e.g. the filenames). You don't need to do string manipulation for every
> invocation, just changing one or two elements of a list.

Thanks. That surely is another advantage. I am trying to figure out a naming scheme now to put this
and the os walk thing together. I imagine i need some string manipulation that allows me to take the
input file name and some how automatically generate a unique but related output file name. I am not
quite sure how to do that but that is more of a pure python problem and i already pushed my luck
on this list with this query. But .. if i could hash out a nice example of how to do this it might be worth
putting a script on the site for future sox users who would like to call sox within python. Possibly.

cheers,

-kp

PS. What does INHO mean?