[Pythonmac-SIG] vobject

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Thursday, December 06, 2007, at 08:34AM, "David Warde-Farley" <dwf at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
>On 5-Dec-07, at 11:36 PM, Nehemiah Dacres wrote:
>
>> perhaps you could point your python to the ical callendar store  
>> place (i forget where this is but its documented at apple  
>> somewhere ) and edit the ical calendar objects with this. Now you  
>> can use a well documented, programmatic interface to your ical  
>> calendars instead of using appscript.
>
>I've read about this before and it's a nice idea, however if I were  
>writing something for OS X I'd still want to use the application hooks  
>for iCal, just to be sure I was getting up to date data. AFAIK Apple  
>makes no guarantees about how often the calendar is flushed to disk.
>
>What would be neat is a bridge that reads the iCalendar using  
>appscript or something like it, and spits out VObjects (or the same  
>deal for Address Book cards), and could flush back from VObject to  
>Apple Address Book. I might consider writing the address book portion  
>when I get around to coding up an iSync conduit for my obsolete cell  
>phone.

FWIW: Leopard includes API's for accessing iCal's database (the CalendarStore framework) and that framework is wrapped by PyObjC. 

Ronald

>
>David
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