On Jan 23, 2005, at 11:40 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
I would expect that the majority of actions that people will write in Python will do very little inter-application communication anyway and instead will do things that Python is significantly better than AppleScript at (doing stuff on a network, mangling files, calling into Objective-C frameworks, etc.).
This is consistent with my first reading of the Automator website. It seemed to me that one could write little Python scripts perhaps similar to the "Services" menu, which could be strung together with other "services" inside of Automator as part of a workflow. I once built a whole graphics processing workflow in AppleScript (and a what is now a VERY old version of PhotoShop); there were some things that I might have been able to do in pure AppleScript, but took only two or three lines of Python code to do, so I invoked little Python scripts in a couple of places -- I'm sure many people have similar needs.
The website says that you can invoke shell scripts from Automator, however, so from this angle the main thing missing is a little tutorial.
best to all,
Bob
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