[Pyobjc-dev] Python as an AppleScript Replacement?

[Peter M. <zig...@po...>]

I don't know if this has been asked before (I couldn't access the list 
archives) but has anyone thought of using PyObjC as an AppleScript 
replacement? Complete Open Scripting Architecture compliance (Script 
Editor support, etc) probably isn't worth it but what about doing 
something functionally similar? Something like:

import osa

finder = osa.getApp("Finder")
finder.empty_trash()

textEdit = osa.getApp("TextEdit")
text = textEdit.doument[1].text
print text

to replace the AppleScript code:

tell app "Finder" to empty trash

tell app "TextEdit"
	theText = the text of the front document
	display dialog theText
end tell

Most of the code to do stuff like this is probably already present in 
PyObjC. Instead of getting class info from the ObjC runtime, you would 
read the application's .scriptSuite files, and instead of bridging to 
ObjC, you would be sending AppleEvents. Otherwise it should be pretty 
similar, right?

So, is any of this possible?

Peter