Nicholas Riley wrote: > I ran into a bug with py-appscript 0.17.2 (handling apps that had quit > while you still had a reference to them) and updated to the current > trunk. This fixed this problem but broke some of my other code. This > code: > > systemEvents = app(id='com.apple.systemEvents') > frontName = systemEvents.processes[its.frontmost][1].name() > > which worked fine with 0.17.2 doesn't work any more. [...] > > It works if I use [its.frontmost == True], but that's kind of ugly. > Is this intentional?
It's deliberate. From aem's History.txt: - byfilter method no longer accepts non-test specifiers as test clauses. Previously, a reference such as 'its.visible' would automatically be expanded to the comparison test 'its.visible.eq (true)' as a convenience. However, this shortcut didn't apply when these non-test references appeared as arguments to the AND and OR logical test methods, which meant that this shortcut behaviour was inconsistent and potentially confusing; therefore it has been removed. Users should update existing code as necessary. While the automatic expansion was nice, leaving it as-was would go against appscript's policy of providing added user convenience only as long as it doesn't impact consistency/reliability, and adding it to AND and OR methods would have been tricky due to the way that appscript and aem interact. So it got yanked. Bit of a pity, but can't be helped. BTW, note that there's a few minor but non-backwards-compatibile API changes happening for 0.18.0. (I know I declared the API finalised in 0.17.0, but that was mostly in case Apple decided to use appscript in Leopard and once they didn't I decided to clean up some remaining warts. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience this may cause, etc.) See the aem and appscript History.txt files for details. HTH has -- http://appscript.sourceforge.net http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig