How do I send text messages to the notification bubbles?

Question

I wrote a python code for getting random text into a .txt file. Now I want to send this random text into notification area via 'notify-send' command. How do we do that?

Answer 1

We can always call notify-send as a subprocess, e.g like that:

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import subprocess

def sendmessage(message):
    subprocess.Popen(['notify-send', message])
    return

Alternatively we could also install python-notify and call the notification through that:

import pynotify

def sendmessage(title, message):
    pynotify.init("Test")
    notice = pynotify.Notification(title, message)
    notice.show()
    return