[Pythonmac-SIG] Need help with AppleEvent bug

[Jack Jansen]

Folks, I need help from some AppleScript gurus. Robin Siebler 
posted bug http://www.python.org/sf/598981 which has to do with 
a get() call to CodeWarrior to get the data of the frontmost 
window returning None. Bill Fancher suggested that this might 
have to do with Python not supporting the cText AppleScript 
type, but that would have shown up differently: you would have 
gotten a return value, but of type aetypes.Unknown('ctxt', 'raw 
data').

I ran the thing under the debugger, and it turns out the reply 
AppleEvent from AESend() indeed doesn't have a '----' parameter, 
and it doesn't have an 'errn' error code either. So, returning 
None is the right thing to do. But the corresponding AppleScript 
works fine...

Now I very vaguely remember something about there being a second 
protocol for sending replies to AppleEvents (maybe for long 
replies >= 32K? I don't remember... And maybe I'm completely 
confused with something else, like the funny CGI protocol with 
AppleScript) but I can't find anything after looking through the 
documentation.

So, to sum it up, I'm out of my water and need a bit of help. 
The bug report has everything you need to reproduce this.
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