heya, gary - thanks!! good to know.
(and, good to hear from you - hope things are going well!)
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Gary Poster <gary.pos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Ken. :-)
>
> It hung for me.
>
> Gary
>
> got a CommandError at count 57474
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File "<stdin>", line 21, in first_timeout
> File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/appscript/reference.py", line
> 504, in __call__
> appscript.reference.CommandError: Command failed:
> OSERROR: -1712
> MESSAGE: Apple event timed out.
> COMMAND:
> app(u'/Applications/iTunes.app').tracks[1].name.get()
>
>
> On Nov 18, 2009, at 2:54 PM, ken manheimer wrote:
>
> > def first_timeout():
> > """Gratuitous itunes appscript reference cycle to elicit a timeout.
> >
> > It usually happens on some systems after just about 2**16 (=
> 2**2**2**2)
> > interactions, and sometimes substantially before that."""
> > import appscript
> > import sys
> > itunes = appscript.app('itunes')
> > t = itunes.tracks[1]
> > count = 0
> > class PassedLimit(Exception): pass
> > try:
> > while True:
> > count += 1
> > if count % 1000 == 0:
> > sys.stderr.write("%i\n" % count)
> > if count > 65530:
> > sys.stderr.write("%i\n" % count)
> > elif count > 66000:
> > raise PassedLimit
> > x = t.name.get()
> > except appscript.reference.CommandError:
> > sys.stderr.write("got a CommandError at count %i\n" % count)
> > raise
> > except PassedLimit:
> > sys.stderr.write("exceeded threshold without triggering the
> timeout\n")
>
>
--
ken
http://myriadicity.net
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