Re: OT:programmin questions

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 06:54:59PM -0500, David Bellows wrote:
...
 
| #!/bin/sh
| while [ "$choice" != q ]
| do
| read choice
| case "$choice" in
|     a) /usr/local/bin/jac -P1;; #jac is a command line CD player
|     b) /usr/local/bin/jac -P5;;
|     c) /usr/local/bin/jac -k;;
|     #First kill the CD and then start DVD player
|     d) /usr/local/bin/jac -k; /usr/local/bin/ogle -u cli;; 
|     q) /usr/local/bin/jac -k;;
| esac
| done
| exit 0

Totally untested :

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys , os
commands = {
        "a" : "/usr/local/bin/jac -P1" ,
        "b" : "/usr/local/bin/jac -P5" ,
        "c" : "/usr/local/bin/jac -k" ,
        "d" : "/usr/local/bin/jac -k ; /usr/local/bin/ogle -u cli" ,
        "q" : "/usr/local/bin/jac -k" ,
    }
while 1 :
    ch = sys.read( 1 ).lower()
    if not commands.has_key( ch ) :
        print "unknown command '%s'" % ch
        continue
    cmd = commands[ ch ]
    os.system( cmd )
    # Note: do this last so that the "q" command is executed nonetheless
    if ch == "q" : break


HTH,
-D

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