mac-notification.py

mac-notification.py

import os

def notify(title, msg = ''):
    '''small osascript notification with proper quotes escaping. don't use this with user input!'''
    clean_str = lambda x: x.replace('"', '\\"').replace('\'', '\'\\\'\'')
    os.system('osascript -e \'display notification "{}" with title "{}"\''.format(
        clean_str(msg),
        clean_str(title)
    ))

notify('Test - "Tiffany\'s Donut Store"', '"Whatever, Bernard" - Tiffany')

# osascript -e 'display notification "hello world!" with title "This is the title"'