[Pythonmac-SIG] converting Mac 'path' to file path in appscript?

Daniel Lord daniellord at mac.com
Fri Jun 20 15:48:25 CEST 2008


On Jun 19, 2008, at 21:33 PM, Ned Deily wrote:

> One way:
>   mactypes.File.makewithhfspath(u'wolfe:downloads').path
>
> <http://appscript.sourceforge.net/py-appscript/doc/mactypes/ 
> index.html>

mactypes is a very useful module, it is how I get the selection in the  
Finder via appscript whether using Python or PyObjC

def getFinderSelection():
	"""List of aliases of selected items in the Finder"""
	return [alias.path for alias in  
app("Finder").selection.get(resulttype=k.alias)]

Daniel



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