[Pythonmac-SIG] How do you find the app that matches a creator type

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:50, Read Roberts wrote:

> Now that mcfs.py is deprecated, what is an alternative  for the now  
> unsupported FindApplication?

The LaunchServices package.  Python 2.4 ships with it  
(Carbon.LaunchServices I think?) or you can use this package for 2.3  
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2004-November/ 
012211.html> to get it.

Alternatively, you can use PyObjC 1.2 or later to just wrap the C  
function directly like this:  
<http://svn.red-bean.com/pyobjc/trunk/pyobjc/Examples/AppKit/ 
PyObjCLauncher/LaunchServices.py>.

-bob