@DKatz In the file picker (in Pythonista > "External Files"), there's a "Select" button that enables both multiple selection, and opening folders. It's admittedly a bit hard to discover.

I think you're referring to this? https://twitter.com/olemoritz/status/713104304366886916

The code is here, but I have no idea if this still works, it's been a while... https://gist.github.com/omz/aca3f4877d3f565239d8

This is really pretty cool! I wonder if it might look even nicer if the whole picture was circular. (I haven't looked at the code in enough detail to see whether this is easy to do or not). But it's really fun to play around with this.

@cvp Not necessarily, if I remember correctly. I was able to run a script that writes a value to a file, and it did seem to run in the background when launched from the Widget. It's possible that this behavior changed in some iOS update, but I'll check.

@cvp Well, not quite. You can also launch these shortcuts using Spotlight search, and the Shortcuts Today widget, in case you don't want to use Siri.

@mithrendal I see thanks. I'll look into it tomorrow, but I think you might be able to move the main_view creation into the global scope (i.e. out of the main function) to make it work, but it's getting pretty late here, and my iPad is busy, so I can't really test this theory right now. I definitely had a working example (just not very pretty) when I posted the last beta.

Now that there is a Shortcuts module in the Pythonista beta, is there a way to run a shortcut from Pythonista and have it executed without seeing the Shortcuts app open on the screen?

I don't think that's possible at all. (In case you're wondering: Yes, there's obviously a private framework that does this, but I'm almost certain it would require special, Apple-only entitlements for the app.)

@JonB That's really interesting, but I can't get it to work. file just ignores my custom ~/.magic file (that works when I pass it with the -m flag).

@dgelessus The #LyX approach seems to be working on Mojave, though I haven't yet tested with the entire library. Thanks!

It looks like my workaround for High Sierra has stopped working on Mojave... Replacing the file utility that Xcode uses doesn't seem entirely trivial, due to System Integrity Protection.

I still have a Mac with High Sierra to upload builds, but I think I'll have to change my approach pretty soon, and there isn't really much of a point releasing the Py3 template as it is, because it's probably broken for everyone on Mojave…

If I don't find a better way, I might just package the standard library as a zip file, and unzip it on first launch, but that would require more storage space and also slow down the first launch.

@castro Not yet, sorry, I'm currently working on other things, but it's on my todo list for 3.3.