[Pythonmac-SIG] Launching a python app with an associated document

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jun 30, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Mike Covill wrote:

> Does anyone have experience creating a pure python app (no Cocoa  
> integration) which is associated with a document extension?
>
> We would like to be able to launch our application by double- 
> clicking an associated document (associated using  
> CFBundleDocumentTypes in the info.plist) and having the data in the  
> document loaded into the python app.  I have added the following  
> code to our setup.py file:
>
> plist = dict(
>     CFBundleDocumentTypes = [
>         dict(
>             CFBundleTypeExtensions=["madf",],
>             CFBundleTypeName="myApp Data File",
>             CFBundleTypeRole="Editor",
>             CFBundleTypeIconFile='myAppDocument.icns',
>         ),
>     ]
> )
>
> py2app_options = dict(...,
>                       plist=plist,
>                      )
>
> the application now launches when we double-click on the document,  
> but I have yet to find how we might feed the contents of the  
> document to an appropriate reader function inside our app.  We had  
> a look at the sys.argv list passed in to main.py thinking the name  
> of the document might be in there but this doesn't seem to be the  
> case.  We also checked os.environ.

You want to use the argv_emulation option. OS X sends the list of  
documents to open via Apple Events.

-bob

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