Using the package pointed to by Bob Ippolito, I find I cannot use the import statement suggested by has hengist, although it may work with the package that he points to. My code now looks like:
from LaunchServices.Launch import LSFindApplicationForInfo from Carbon.CoreFoundation import kCFURLPOSIXPathStyle import MacOS
creatorID = 'KONA'
try: adobeHelpFSRef, adobeHelpURL = \ LSFindApplicationForInfo(creatorID, None, None) adobeHelpPath = \
adobeHelpURL.CFURLCopyFileSystemPath(kCFURLPOSIXPathStyle).toPython() except MacOS.Error : adobeHelpPath = None
adobeHelpPath is now a Unicode string, and needs to be encoded as 'utf-8' to work with some file operatons.
At 7:50 AM -0500 1/31/05, Bob Ippolito wrote:
On Jan 31, 2005, at 1:50, Read Roberts wrote:
Now that mcfs.py is deprecated, what is an alternative for the now unsupported FindApplication?
The LaunchServices package. Python 2.4 ships with it (Carbon.LaunchServices I think?) or you can use this package for 2.3 <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2004-November/012211.html> to get it.
Alternatively, you can use PyObjC 1.2 or later to just wrap the C function directly like this: <http://svn.red-bean.com/pyobjc/trunk/pyobjc/Examples/AppKit/PyObjCLauncher/LaunchServices.py>.
-bob
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