Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Spotlight queries using PyObjc

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

 
On Monday, February 19, 2007, at 03:36AM, "isb" <ae...@gm...> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I would like to make Spotlight queries using the
>MDQuery/NSMetadataQuery interface in Python.  I am new to PyObjc (and
>mac development in general) and so right now i am using the
>mdfind/mdls utilities for the queries. However, my ugly hack is too
>limiting and slow and I would rather work directly with the spotlight
>API. I searched the list archive and found that CoreFoundation APIs
>are not currently wrapped by PyObjc (but isn't NSMetadataQuery a
>ObjC/Cocoa API?). So is there any way I could interface with the
>spotlight query API using Python?

Using NSMetadataQuery? This class is found in the Foundation package:

   from Foundation import NSMetadataQuery


Ronald
>
>Thanks
>isb
>
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