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First of all please, excuse my bad English and code :)

So I was browsing the forums, looking at all sorts of topics. I got tired of copy-pasting the scripts into a new file, every time I wanted to test a script someone wrote. So I (of course) thought it'd be nice if I could just run the script from the app extension, without leaving Safari.

So I wrote this, which kinda works most of the time. (I tried to comment it as best as I could.)

import clipboard
import runpy

# Every line of the copied script
cliplines = clipboard.get().split('\n')

# Some scripts contain the 'if __name__ == "__main__":' statement
# We can't have that since we need the script to run when it's imported
try:
    cliplines[cliplines.index("if __name__ == '__main__':")] = "if __name__ != '__main__':"
except ValueError:
    pass


# @Phuket2 keeps importing editor without using it
# Since editor is not supported in the app extension...
# We try to remove it and see if it still works
for i in range(len(cliplines)):
    cliplines[i] = (cliplines[i].replace('import editor', '').replace(', editor', '') + '\n').encode()

# Writing the new script to the .py file
with open('TheScript.py', 'wb') as f:
    f.writelines(cliplines)

# Run the script
runpy.run_path('TheScript.py')

It works by writing the text in your clipboard to a .py file and then running it.

I would appreciate I someone helped improve it

(Here's some random code to test it on)

from math import pi
from ui import View, TextView


# Just a pointless function
def changeText(sender, text):
    sender.text = text

v = View()
v.bg_color = 'white'
v.frame = (0, 0, 400, 100)

l = TextView()
l.alignment = 1
l.editable = False
l.frame = (0, 0, len(str(pi)) * 20, 96)
l.font = ('CourierNewPSMT', 32)

changeText(l, 'Pi\n' + str(pi))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    v.present('sheet')

l.x = v.width/2 - l.width/2
l.y = v.height/2 - l.height/2
v.add_subview(l)

Edit: What @omz said

Wouldn't it be simpler to use runpy.run_path('TheScript.py')? That way, from x import * should also work, and it's less complicated overall.

I'd also recommend removing the blanket except block at the end. The error message "there's a problem with the code" is usually less helpful than an actual traceback.

@omz yeah it probably would. I looked up ways to make scripts run other scripts, but none of them worked in pythonista. I just didn't come across runpy.

runpy is a module in python standard library and it is not specific to pythonista,

https://docs.python.org/3/library/runpy.html

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Copy hyperlink and than choose the code... it's just another approach...

@uj_jonas , lol, I see you use my name in vain as they say 😱 You are right though., I do import ui and editor. I have several snippets I use to create some starter code. But now since the addition of themes which are accessed with the editor module, I changed my snippets just to include ui and edititor. Just convince. More often than not I want that import.

@Phuket2 I could have left that part out, but didn't since you're such a big part of the forum.

There's not much code to run, if it can't run yours ;)

@uj_jonas said:

@Phuket2 keeps importing editor without using it

Favoriting for this 😆