Thanks Has, this definitely did the trick. I guess when I get to updating individual values in selected todos records, I will have to use a relatively slow request-per-update method. Is there a trick to update a field of a todo with a given uid in a single request?
Thanks, Marcin On 6-Aug-06, at 7:05 PM, has wrote: > Marcin Komorowski wrote: > >> I am trying to generate a python internal structure (a dictionary of >> dictionaries) with a copy of all todo data from iCal. I got it to >> work using the following code: >> [...] >> The problem is that this appears to execute painstakingly slowly. > > Apple event IPC is fairly expensive; asking applications to resolve > lots of object model 'references' (i.e. queries) especially so. > Sending a few complex queries is usually much, much quicker than > sending lots of simple ones, e.g. the following will pull all > property values from all todos in a single go: > > todos = appCal.calendars.filter(its.name != > '').todos.properties() > > You can then rearrange this data in Python to suit your needs. > > There's more information in the appscript manual: chapters 2 and 3 > discuss how Apple events and the Apple Event Object Model work; > chapter 12 discusses various optimisation techniques for getting good > performance out of the system. > > HTH > > has > -- > http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
