On Feb 10, 2005, at 6:19, Enrico Franchi wrote:
I need to write a function that gets a filepath and gives back what kind of file is that in a consistent way.
I thought i could use my beloved old TYPE and CREATOR, then I realized that in MacOS X not every file has got them.
So i can check both the extension and the HFSFileType.
Still i need a consistent way to express the file type. I need something that given an HFSFileType returns the 'most used' extension, or something that from an extension determines a file type.
Is there anything like that?
Since 10.3, LaunchServices's UTType functions should be able to do this, but I don't think they're wrapped in Python (wouldn't be hard to loadBundleFunctions them into PyObjC, though). I've also never tried them, so I don't know how complete the database is.
-bob
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