has wrote:
> matthias oberlaender wrote:
> >I would very much like to get and set the color label (or 'label
index')
> >of a file programmatically from Python. I spent quite some time
googling,
> >but was unable to extract the necessary bits how to do it with a few
> >Carbon calls.
>
> Dunno about Carbon APIs, but it's easy enough using IPC:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env pythonw
>
> from appscript import *
> from macfile import Alias
>
> path = '/Users/has/test.txt'
> label = 3
>
> app('Finder').items[Alias(path)].label_index.set(label)
> print app('Finder').items[Alias(path)].label_index.get()
>
>
> See <http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/appscript.html>.
> Note: if you install appscript using the binary installer (easiest),
> you'll also need to d/l the latest appscript-0.13.1.tar.gz package from
<
> http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/appscript_source.html>
> and install that as well.
>
> HTH
>
> has
Looked promising. Very concise. Thank you very much. However, I had no
look installing appscript. I installed the two packages as you suggested
(OS X 10.3 with Apple supplied Python). Below is what happened. Maybe some
more updates necessary? (I assume installing appscript-0.13.1.tar.gz was
meant as a patch to the pure binary installation.)
from appscript import app
from macfile import Alias
import os
path = '/Users/oberlaender/dead.letter'
assert os.path.exists(path)
print app('Finder').items[Alias(path)].label_index.get()
Without AppscriptTerminologyServer running:
pythonw -i test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 8, in ?
print app('Finder').items[Alias(path)].label_index.get()
File
"/Users/oberlaender/Desktop/appscript-0.13.1/appscript/specifier.py", line
390, in __init__
translationTables = tablesForLocalApp(path)
File
"/Users/oberlaender/Desktop/appscript-0.13.1/appscript/translationtablereader.py",
line 142, in tablesForLocalApp
classes, enums, properties, elements, commands = buildTables(path)
File
"/Users/oberlaender/Desktop/appscript-0.13.1/appscript/translationtablebuilder.py",
line 99, in buildTables
aeteparser.parse(getaete(path), p)
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/osaterminology/aeteparser.py",
line 254, in parse
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/osaterminology/aeteparser.py",
line 64, in list
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/osaterminology/aeteparser.py",
line 182, in _parseSuite
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/osaterminology/aeteparser.py",
line 64, in list
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/osaterminology/aeteparser.py",
line 100, in _parseCommand
TypeError: start_command() takes exactly 6 arguments (7 given)
>>>
With AppscriptTerminologyServer running:
pythonw -i test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 8, in ?
print app('Finder').items[Alias(path)].label_index.get()
File
"/Users/oberlaender/Desktop/appscript-0.13.1/appscript/specifier.py", line
203, in __call__
raise CommandError(self, (args, kargs), e)
appscript.specifier.CommandError: event() got an unexpected keyword
argument 'resulttype'
Failed command:
app(u'/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app').items[Alias(u'/Users/oberlaender/dead.letter')].label_index.get()
>>>
-- Matthias
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