[Pythonmac-SIG] Get Info Comments

[Dante]

Answering my own question after a little help from AECaptureParser 
(thanks Erik!) These two functions will set and get comments with a 
path to a file. They're not tested much, but they've worked well so 
far.

Michael

import aetools, aetypes

def getComment(path):
	"""Get the comment in the Get Info window of a file"""
	AEobject_00 = 
aetypes.ObjectSpecifier(want=aetypes.Type('file'), form="name", 
seld=path, fr=None)
	AEobject_01 = 
aetypes.ObjectSpecifier(want=aetypes.Type('prop'), form="prop", 
seld=aetypes.Type('iwnd'), fr=AEobject_00)
	AEobject_02 = 
aetypes.ObjectSpecifier(want=aetypes.Type('prop'), form="prop", 
seld=aetypes.Type('comt'), fr=AEobject_01)
	_arguments = {'----':AEobject_02}
	_reply, _arguments, _attributes = 
aetools.TalkTo("MACS").send("core", "getd", _arguments, {})
	if _arguments.has_key('errn'):
		raise aetools.Error, aetools.decodeerror(_arguments)
	if _arguments.has_key('----'):
		return _arguments['----']
def setComment(path, comment):
	"Set the comment in the Get Info window of a file"""
	_arguments = {}
	AEobject_00 = 
aetypes.ObjectSpecifier(want=aetypes.Type('file'), form="name", 
seld=path, fr=None)
	AEobject_01 = 
aetypes.ObjectSpecifier(want=aetypes.Type('prop'), form="prop", 
seld=aetypes.Type('iwnd'), fr=AEobject_00)
	AEobject_02 = 
aetypes.ObjectSpecifier(want=aetypes.Type('prop'), form="prop", 
seld=aetypes.Type('comt'), fr=AEobject_01)
	_arguments = {'----':AEobject_02, 'data':comment}
	_reply, _arguments, _attributes = 
aetools.TalkTo("MACS").send("core", "setd", _arguments, {})
	if _arguments.has_key('errn'):
		raise aetools.Error, aetools.decodeerror(_arguments)
	if _arguments.has_key('----'):
		return _arguments['----']
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