#!/usr/bin/env python import os import sys import tempfile """ run_command.py Module for running SVG-generating commands in Inkscape extensions Copyright (C) 2008 Stephen Silver This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA """ # Run a command that generates an SVG (or PDF) file from an input file. # On success, outputs the contents of the resulting file to stdout, and exits # with a return code of 0. # On failure, outputs an error message to stderr, and exits with a return # code of 1. def run(command_format, prog_name): svgfile = tempfile.mktemp(".svg") command = command_format % svgfile msg = None # ps2pdf may attempt to write to the current directory, which may not # be writeable, so we switch to the temp directory first. try: os.chdir(tempfile.gettempdir()) except Exception: pass # In order to get a return code from the process, we use subprocess.Popen # if it's available (Python 2.4 onwards) and otherwise use popen2.Popen3 # (Unix only). As the Inkscape package for Windows includes Python 2.5, # this should cover all supported platforms. try: try: from subprocess import Popen, PIPE p = Popen(command, shell=True, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE) rc = p.wait() out = p.stdout.read() err = p.stderr.read() except ImportError: try: from popen2 import Popen3 p = Popen3(command, True) p.wait() rc = p.poll() out = p.fromchild.read() err = p.childerr.read() except ImportError: # shouldn't happen... msg = "Neither subprocess.Popen nor popen2.Popen3 is available" if rc and msg is None: msg = "%s failed:\n%s\n%s\n" % (prog_name, out, err) except Exception, inst: msg = "Error attempting to run %s: %s" % (prog_name, str(inst)) # If successful, copy the output file to stdout. if msg is None: if os.name == 'nt': # make stdout work in binary on Windows import msvcrt msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY) try: f = open(svgfile, "rb") data = f.read() sys.stdout.write(data) f.close() except IOError, inst: msg = "Error reading temporary file: %s" % str(inst) # Clean up. try: os.remove(svgfile) except Exception: pass # Ouput error message (if any) and exit. if msg is not None: sys.stderr.write(msg + "\n") sys.exit(1) else: sys.exit(0) # vim: expandtab shiftwidth=4 tabstop=8 softtabstop=4 fileencoding=utf-8 textwidth=99