[Pythonmac-SIG] How do you use macfs.FInfo?

[Richard Gordon]

A friend of mine asked me to do an AppleScript droplet for him that 
would change the creator code of his gifs & jpegs from that of 
FireWorks or PhotoShop to the code for Picture Viewer. I know how to 
do that in AppleScript and probably know how to do it in MacPerl, but 
I decided to use Python instead because it's cool, etc.

Anyway, naturally I'm now stuck. I gathered that what I wanted to use 
was macfs.FInfo, but I have yet to figure it out. The Python 
documentation deals with this in Sec. 7.3 and says that the FInfo 
Objects include:

Creator
        The 4-character creator code of the file.

That's all well and good, but when I try to use this, I just get

>>> macfs.FInfo(thefile)
<FInfo object at 300e0c0>

so I guess that I am missing the point here.

I'd appreciate any explanations about this and, while we're at it, 
what's the deal with FInfoType?

Richard Gordon
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