On 21.02.2010, at 15:20, has wrote:
Thanks! I made working examples for both, but I guess the first has AppleScript
limitations like requiring a UI context.
> mactypes.Alias doesn't provide flatten/unflatten APIs, but it's just a
> wrapper around aem.ae.AEDesc, which does.
import base64
import mactypes, aem
# Raises ValueError.
alias = mactypes.Alias("/Users/towb/test")
data = alias.desc.flatten()
string = base64.b64encode(data)
# Now store, move and rename file, load back.
data = buffer(base64.b64decode(string))
# aem.ae.MacOSError -50 if bad.
desc = aem.ae.unflattendesc(data)
# makewithdesc does not raise.
alias = mactypes.Alias.makewithdesc(desc)
# aem.ae.MacOSError -43 if lost.
print alias.path
> NSURL has a 'bookmark' feature in 10.6+.
import base64
from Foundation import *
url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath_("/Users/towb/test")
data =
url.bookmarkDataWithOptions_includingResourceValuesForKeys_relativeToURL_error_(
0, None, None, None)
if not data:
raise IOError("file not found")
string = base64.b64encode(data)
# Now store, move and rename file, load back.
data = buffer(base64.b64decode(string))
url =
NSURL.URLByResolvingBookmarkData_options_relativeToURL_bookmarkDataIsStale_error_(
data, (1 << 8), None, None, None)
# Named constants don't work?
if not url:
raise StandardError("bad or lost")
print url.path()
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