On Jan 21, 2006, at 2:01 AM, Nicholas Matsakis wrote: > http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/spotlight/ > pythonmetadataimporter.html > > I really dig the Spotlight Metadata Importer for python, but it > only works > for files ending in ".py" which excludes various shell scripts I have > written that have no filename extension. Anyone have a super elegant > solution to this problem? > > Here's my thoughts on the matter. To my knowledge, Mac OS X has only > three ways of knowing the type of a file: the HFS type code, the > filename > extension, and the presence of an executable bit on a file* (in > order of > precidence). I've already nixed filename extensions and the > executable bit > only seems to be able to identify something as a "Unix Executable > File". > So, that leaves HFS type codes. The first question is whether this > is an > HFS type code lying around from the days of yore that identified a > python > executable script? If not, would anyone mind if I registered one? > (Once > we've got a suitable type code, modifying the Spotlight Metadata > Importer > to claim it is no big deal).
> As a crazy alternative to all of the above, the python metadata > importer > could be written to work in conjunction with spotmeta > (http://www.fluffy.co.uk/spotmeta/) to additionally run on all text or > executable files and only add the python metadata if the file > actually is > a python file. Not that I'm suggesting this be done or anything, > but I > think its an interesting idea. Hopefully Leopard will provide a more > elegant solution to this problem. Hi Nicholas, I'm the author of Python Metadata Importer. There should already be a HFS type code for Python source. I can add the type code to Python Metadata Importer to wide its search. Getting the importer to work with Spotmeta is AFAICT a non-starter - all Spotmeta seems to do is add extra metadata to a file - it doesn't change the importer that a file is imported with. Jon. _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
