Question

Quite a simple question here. I want to import webkit2png into another script, but I can’t get it to work.

import feedparser, webkit2png
d = feedparser.parse('http://example.com/rss')
link = d.entries[0].link
title = d.entries[0].title
webkit2png link

This gives me a syntax error on line 5. What do I do wrong?

 File "example.py", line 5
    webkit2png link
               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Answer 1

webkit2png seems to only have a command line interface, so importing the module won’t help much, unless you try to replicate the code that is issued in the main function in webkit2png.

I’d suggest to use the subprocess module to call the file directly, e.g.

import feedparser
import subprocess

d = feedparser.parse('http://example.com/rss')
link = d.entries[0].link
title = d.entries[0].title

subprocess.call(["webkit2png", link])

In case the webkit2png.py is in the same directory of your script, replace the subprocess.call with

subprocess.call(["python", "webkit2png.py", link])