On Mar 15, 7:31 pm, Mark Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has wrote: > > On 15 Mar, 18:05, Mark Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The sorts of things I want to do are: > >> * copy the directory of Finder to the clipboard > >> * add a new file to Finder's directory. > >> * find out the size of a directory > >> * open a file with Aquamacs, regardless of file type, > > > If you want to control desktop applications directly, that generally > > means using Apple event IPC. The most popular language for application > > scripting is traditionally AppleScript, but Apple event bridges exist > > for other languages as well. The best of these is appscript; see my > > sig for links. Some Finder scripting examples: > > > #!/usr/bin/python > > ... > > Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC: > >http://appscript.sourceforge.net > > Aah! Many thanks. I see that I had to do > easy_install appscript > and ensure I use /usr/bin/python > I'm off to play with it now. Exciting stuff. > > I installed the Python from MacPorts. That's not quite what I wanted, > because they only have a version for Python 2.4. *Sigh*. MacPorts seems > to be getting new ports all the time. The problem is, there also seems > to be an aweful lot of ports gathering bitrot.
Is there a particular reason you want python from MacPorts? OSX Leopard comes with python 2.5, that's what I use on my mac. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
