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

[Read Roberts]

Thank you both very much for your responses. This 
was very helpful - I now have working code.

Using the package pointed to by Bob Ippolito, I 
find I cannot use the import statement suggested 
by has  hengist, although it may work with the 
package that he points to. My code now looks like:

from LaunchServices.Launch import LSFindApplicationForInfo
from Carbon.CoreFoundation import kCFURLPOSIXPathStyle
import MacOS

creatorID = 'KONA'

    try:
      adobeHelpFSRef, adobeHelpURL = \
                  LSFindApplicationForInfo(creatorID, None, None)
       adobeHelpPath = \
 
adobeHelpURL.CFURLCopyFileSystemPath(kCFURLPOSIXPathStyle).toPython()
    except MacOS.Error :
       adobeHelpPath = None

adobeHelpPath is now a Unicode string, and needs 
to be encoded as 'utf-8' to work with some file 
operatons.




At 7:50 AM -0500 1/31/05, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>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