Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Python as an AppleScript Replacement?

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

On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 06:05  PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> On Sunday, Mar 2, 2003, at 07:10 Europe/Amsterdam, Peter Montagner 
> wrote:
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>> 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:
>
> Did you look at the OSA support in MacPython? It already does most of 
> what you want, adding the missing features is probably less work than 
> starting from scratch.

I may be missing something, but I thought that MacPython's OSA support 
was limited to the AppleEvents level. AppleEvents are the low level 
interapplication messaging protocol. The code would still be useful of 
course, but it wasn't what I was thinking of (unless I'm missing 
something). You *could* look up the 4 char AppleEvent codes for the 
call you want manually and then send them and wait for a response, but 
this is nothing like osa.getApp("Finder").empty_trash. It is the core 
though.

Here's what emptying the trash is like with AppleEvents (pseudocode, 
but you get the idea):

AppleEvent ('MACS', 'fndr', 'empt', '----', objspec ('trsh'))

Not pleasant, and that is a simple example.

Peter