[Pythonmac-SIG] How to fetch iCal todo description?

[Paul Berkowitz]

On 2/12/06 11:17 AM, "has" <hengist.podd at virgin.net> wrote:

> iCal's .scriptTerminology file defines a 'description' property for calendar,
> event and todo classes, and always has. If they're not showing up on 10.3 it
> could be because the definitions themselves are suspect (there's an unfamiliar
> 'Sex' key), and 10.3 is fussier than 10.4 about this. I suspect that rather
> than fix the .scriptTerminology they relaxed the .scriptTerminology->aete
> conversion in 10.4.

'description' of event and of calendar did show up in 10.3, just not
description of todo. (And I have a vague recollection that 'description' of
calendar gave you the entire iCal data for the calendar instead of just the
little description you see in the UI's Info pane, as 10.4 does correctly.
But I might be wrong, since I never knew about that little description until
last week and am also not in 10.3 to check.) 'description' of event always
worked properly in 10.3. Do you see any differences between event's and
todo's 'description'? I suspect the bug might have been in the deeper
implementation links from dictionary to object.
> 
> I'm not rebooting into 10.3 to check this theory just now though, but feel
> free to dink about with it yourself. But it'd certainly explain why I could
> see the properties on 10.4 while someone on 10.3 wouldn't. Plus it means that
> the problem may well be fixable on 10.3 with a bit of judicious editing of the
> relevant entries.

Hmmm?

-- 
Paul Berkowitz