Bill Janssen <jans...@parc.com> wrote: > I'm trying to write this scrap of Applescript in Python appscript: > > on run > tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint" > set this_item to path of active presentation > end tell > set unix_item to POSIX path of this_item > display dialog of unix_item > end run > > which yields "/tilde/janssen/Documents", an NFS-mounted location. > > I've got this: > > from appscript import * > from mactypes import * > print File.makewithhfspath(app("Microsoft > PowerPoint").active_presentation.path()).path > > However, in this case, I get "/janssen/Documents", which is wrong. > > So, how do I get the effect of "POSIX path of" in appscriptpt? > > This is appscript 0.19.0 on 10.5.6, with /usr/bin/python.
And osascript seems to get this right, too: % osascript -e 'POSIX path of "janssen:Documents"' /tilde/janssen/Documents % Bill _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig