[Pythonmac-SIG] ScriptingBridge vs. AppScript

[Jon Smith]

Hi,
I've been using Appscript and have been incredibly happy with it. However
I'm having a ton of problems getting the list of tracks from my library. I
was assuming the problem was with my library/iTunes itself however I can get
the track list with ScriptingBridge. Am I doing something wrong? Why would
ScriptingBridge work and AppScript Timeout? Any ideas.

#!/usr/bin/env python
from ScriptingBridge import *
from appscript import *

def main(argv=None):
    itunes =
SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier_("com.apple.iTunes")
    lib = itunes.sources()[0].playlists()[0]
    tracks = lib.tracks()
    print len(tracks)
    tracks2 =
app(u'/Applications/iTunes.app').library_playlists['Library'].file_tracks.get()
    print len(tracks2)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main())

Results:

kona:Python joe$ time python tt.py
Python: unknown type name "tdta".
38447
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tt.py", line 23, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "tt.py", line 19, in main
    tracks2 =
app(u'/Applications/iTunes.app').library_playlists['Library'].file_tracks.get()
  File
"/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/appscript-0.18.1-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg/appscript/reference.py",
line 439, in __call__
appscript.reference.CommandError: CommandError -609: connectionInvalid
Failed command:
app(u'/Applications/iTunes.app').library_playlists['Library'].file_tracks.get()

real 2m1.152s
user 0m0.687s
sys 0m0.129s
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