Scott Larsen - Calling Applescript from Python and passing in Variables

For work I had to automate a piece of software - which was seemingly best done with Applescript - but I wanted to be able to call on the script from Python and also pass in some variables. py-applescript seemed to be the best package to interface with Applescript and has examples of how to either a) call an external Applescript or b) pass in arguments. The documentation was a little less clear on how to do both at the same time. I eventually got everything working with code similar to what is below. You send the path of the external script to the AppleScript class (?) as a keyword argument ("path=path_to_file.scpt") and the arguments to the run method (?).

import applescript


APPLESCRIPT_LOCATION = "software_automation.scpt"

INPUT_LIST = ["/Users/User1/Downloads/input1"]
OUTPUT_LIST = [
    "/Users/User1/Downloads/output1",
    "/Users/User1/Downloads/output2",
    "/Users/User1/Downloads/output3",
]

CLIENT_NAME = "Client Name1"
PROJECT_NAME = "Project Name1"
JOB_NAME = "Job Name1"

EMAIL_ADDRESSES = "user@example.com"
REPORTS_DESTINATION = "/Users/User1/Downloads/1"


def software_automation(
    input_list,
    output_list,
    client_name,
    project_name,
    job_name,
    email_addresses,
    reports_destination,
):
    applescript.AppleScript(path=APPLESCRIPT_LOCATION).run(
        input_list,
        output_list,
        client_name,
        project_name,
        job_name,
        email_addresses,
        reports_destination,
    )


software_automation(
    input_list=INPUT_LIST,
    output_list=OUTPUT_LIST,
    client_name=CLIENT_NAME,
    project_name=PROJECT_NAME,
    job_name=JOB_NAME,
    email_addresses=EMAIL_ADDRESSES,
    reports_destination=REPORTS_DESTINATION,
)