Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Given a filename on an HFS volume, what call do I use to see if it has > a resource fork, and if there's anything in it? How do I read that > data?
rpath = os.path.join(yourpath, '..namedfork', 'rsrc') os.path.getsize(rpath) > 0 data = open(rpath).read() or, possibly more helpfully, from Carbon import Res try: rf = Res.FSpOpenResFile(yourpath, 0) except MacOS.Error, e: if e.args[0] == -39: # not a resource file pass else: raise else: for i in range(1, Res.Count1Types() + 1): typ = Res.Get1IndType(i) for j in range(1, Res.Count1Resources(typ) + 1): res = Res.Get1IndResource(typ, j) id_, typ2, name = res.GetResInfo() print repr(typ), id_, repr(name), len(res.data), if len(res.data) < 40: print repr(res.data) else: print Res.CloseResFile(rf) > I'm trying to read the URL out of a .webloc file, if that helps. Running the above on the only webloc file I seem to have lying around gives: 'drag' 128 '' 48 'TEXT' 256 '' 31 'http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/' 'url ' 256 '' 31 'http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/' Cheers, mwh -- I think if we have the choice, I'd rather we didn't explicitly put flaws in the reST syntax for the sole purpose of not insulting the almighty. -- /will on the doc-sig _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig