How to look up a word in macos dictionary with python subprocess

Question

I am writing a script to open and search the macOS dictionary application

In terminal, I can do this

open dict://cheeseburger

and the app opens to the cheeseburger entry

Using python's subprocess module, I can do this:

subprocess.Popen(["path_to_dictionary_app"])

and the app opens

How do I include a search word in the subprocess?

Answer 1

The syntax of Popen is subprocess.Popen(['command','arg1', 'arg2']) .

In your case:

search = 'cheeseburger'
args = ['open','dict://'+search]
subprocess.Popen(args)