Re: [Bitpim-devel] VCard status?

[Tom P. <mlp...@ea...>]

On Mar 25, 2004, at 9:05 AM, Steven Palm wrote:
>> Sane - or not - it's the only export format for the MacOS X Address 
>> Book.  I hope I'll be forgiven if ambiguities in the spec are 
>> resolved arbitrarily in favor of Address Book usage.
>
>  Export format, perhaps, but not the only way to get that data out. 
> You can extract bits through the AddressBook API provided by Apple, so 
> perhaps a small C library wrapped by SWIG would allow Python to 
> interact with AddressBook in a much more useful fashion.

That's a good idea.  I'll probably still go for vCard export/import 
first.

> I started looking at this, but didn't get very far as my spare time is 
> non-existant these days. iCal has no API yet, so you are stuck with 
> using AppleEvents or just dealing with the raw data files.

Ok.  FWIW, it looks like iCal supports vCalendar, iCalendar, and 
Entourage formats for import, and exports vCalendar files.


Thanks,

Tom