Python & macOS: open new Terminal window from Python, passing command to be executed

Question

I am using the following two lines of Python code to open a new Terminal window from a Python script, and this works fine:

import os
os.system('open -a Terminal .')

Now I would like to pass the new Terminal window a command to be executed, for example

ls

How can I do that?

Degeneration

See this thread here: #19308915 – Independence

You want to make Terminal open with the starting point of something like bash -c "ls; exec bash". I'm not familiar with OS X, but in most Linux terminal emulators you can pass it in a flag. – Kenwood

Actually, none of the solutions for OS X explained in the recommended thread works... – Degeneration

I think this one is at least a partial duplicate. – Kenwood

Answer 1

Since the old answer is depreciated,

Download applescript if you havent,

pip3 install applescript

python script

from applescript import tell

#set what command you want to run here
yourCommand = 'ls'

tell.app( 'Terminal', 'do script "' + yourCommand + '"') 

Kayo

Answer 2

Try this

import appscript

appscript.app('Terminal').do_script('ls')  # or any other command you choose

Cheddar

appscript module hasn't been supported or updated in several years. – Infrasonic

I could no longer download the appscript module. The answer should no longer be accepted since it will waste peoples time. Instead use the applescript module which is still alive and kicking. :) – Infrasonic

The usage of the applescript module is similar: applescript.tell.app( 'Terminal', 'do script "' + cmd + '"', background=True ) – Infrasonic

Still, don't downvote old answers because we can't future-proof anything. Just create a new answer – Cheddar

Answer 3

No need for extra libraries, see example below

import subprocess
import shlex

cmd = "sleep 10"

subprocess.run(
    shlex.split(
        f"""osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal" to activate' -e 'tell app "Terminal" to do script "{cmd}" '"""
    )
)

Maineetloire