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I'm seeing a difference and possible bug in the behavior of the editor module. (using version 1.5)

I want to read a file's contents. It works when running a basic script, but not when triggered by a button press.

Spent awhile on this, I believe this is the simplest path to reproduce:

1. Create two scripts, one called "ReadMe.py" and one called "RunMe.py"
2. Put some junk text in ReadMe
3. Open RunMe and add a UI (calling the necessary load_view and present)
4. Create a method called open_script, using the code below
5. Create a button
6. Set the action of the button to be open_script
7. Run the UI, click the button

Code:

from console import hud_alert

def open_script(sender):
  editor.open_file('ReadMe.py')
  time.sleep(0.5) # give time for file to be loaded
  hud_alert(editor.get_path())
  hud_alert(editor.get_text())

You'll see the path and first line of RunMe rather than ReadMe. Although when you close the UI, you'll be on the ReadMe script.

But if you run the logic of open_script just on its own, not through the UI, everything works as expected.

Please advise a workaround or correct my misunderstanding?

Thank you for Pythonista!

Try:

@ui.in_background
def open_script(sender):

Brilliant, that worked, thank you!

To perform a replace in that background file, I still have to leave the time.sleep() in (with a sleep less than 0.3 typically nothing happens)... Is there a better way to do that as well?

To perform a replace in that background file, I still have to leave the time.sleep() in (with a sleep less than 0.3 typically nothing happens)... Is there a better way to do that as well?

There isn't a better way right now. The editor opens files after a brief delay, which is to prevent iOS from potentially killing the app if it takes too long to launch... I'll probably change editor.open_file in the future to return after the file has been completely loaded, but for now you'll have to live with the sleep workaround.

Makes complete sense, thank you.