Brightness Tweak/Application

[MG&TL]

Perhaps this will help:

import subprocess

#Run the xrandr command within a shell, redirecting stdout.
result = subprocess.Popen("xrandr --current --verbose | grep Brightness | sed 's/[^0-9.]*//g'", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

#Print the first line of stdout, as a floating-point number 
print(float(result.stdout.read().split()[0]))

[eenofonn]

Perhaps this will help:

import subprocess

#Run the xrandr command within a shell, redirecting stdout.
result = subprocess.Popen("xrandr --current --verbose | grep Brightness | sed 's/[^0-9.]*//g'", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

#Print the first line of stdout, as a floating-point number 
print(float(result.stdout.read().split()[0]))

I think I might just love you lol

[MG&TL]

I think I might just love you lol

That's a good one.

Let me know how you get on.

[eenofonn]

That's a good one.

Let me know how you get on.

I've had my kids all weekend and I've started looking at it but I think it's best if I look at some tutorials before I start messing around with python again. Having a hard time wrapping my head around how to call variables or define them (whatever it's called) I will let you know when I get back to trying it


EDIT- I found what I was doing wrong!!! gedit wasn't showing the spacing correctly, I opened it up in nano and it was obvious what I was doing wrong. I now have the completed code working for my machine but I want to be able to modify it for others who are using a different output so I'm going to find a way to grab that too

[MG&TL]

I've had my kids all weekend and I've started looking at it but I think it's best if I look at some tutorials before I start messing around with python again. Having a hard time wrapping my head around how to call variables or define them (whatever it's called) I will let you know when I get back to trying it

Probably a good idea, but python is designed to be hackable for beginners, so you should be okay.

EDIT- I found what I was doing wrong!!! gedit wasn't showing the spacing correctly, I opened it up in nano and it was obvious what I was doing wrong. I now have the completed code working for my machine but I want to be able to modify it for others who are using a different output so I'm going to find a way to grab that too

Awesome! Yup, python's indents are a bit of a gotcha. Good luck with that!