[Pythonmac-SIG] AppleEvents in MacPython 2.3?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Monday, Aug 11, 2003, at 19:10 America/New_York, Mark Day wrote:

>
> On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 3:15 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> On Monday, Aug 11, 2003, at 17:47 America/New_York, Larry Meyn wrote:
>>
>>> On a related subject of colon separated AppleScript paths, how does 
>>> one get the name of the root disk for generating absolute  OS 9 
>>> style (colon separated) paths?  The abspath function from the 
>>> macpath module doesn't work under OS X , because it uses os.getcwd() 
>>> which returns a "/" delimited path.  Are some nice functions that 
>>> someone has written that can convert between the two path styles 
>>> under OS X?
>>
>> import Carbon.File
>> print Carbon.File.FSRef('/').FSGetCatalogInfo(0)[1]
>> # looks like the full unicode name for the volume.. but maybe OS9 
>> colon paths use the FSSpec paths?
>
> Close.  In general, you convert the POSIX-style path to an FSRef (in 
> Carbon this would be FSPathMakeRef; in Python you can also use 
> Carbon.File.FSRef()).  Then, call FSGetCatalogInfo and get the FSSpec. 
>  Look inside the FSSpec for the name.  That's the name used by 
> traditional Mac OS 9 style paths.  (Note that there is no such thing 
> as a Unicode path as far as the Carbon File Manager is concerned).
>
> Here's what you'd use to get just the name:
> print Carbon.File.FSRef('/').FSGetCatalogInfo(0)[2].as_tuple()[2]
>
> The first [2] gets the FSSpec output from FSGetCatalogInfo.  The 
> second [2] gets the name out of the FSSpec.

I thought the FSRef was capable of long utf8 file names, and it was my 
guess that's what FSGetCatalogInfo(0)[1] was?

-bob