[Pythonmac-SIG] Findertools

[Bill Bedford]

One of the interesting things about the finder appleevents is that 
many will take a list of objects to work on. Using the finder in this 
way is usually very much quicker than looping over a list in Python.

I have therefore modified my findertools with the following code:

def copy(src, dstdir):
	"""Copy a file or a list of files to a folder"""
	finder = _getfinder()
	if type(src) == type([]):
		src_fss = []
		for s in range(len(src)):
			src_fss.append(macfs.FSSpec(src[s]))
	else:
		src_fss = macfs.FSSpec(src)
	dst_fss = macfs.FSSpec(dstdir)
	return finder.duplicate(src_fss, to=dst_fss)

def move(src, dstdir):
	"""Move a file or a list of files to a folder"""
	finder = _getfinder()
	if type(src) == type([]):
		src_fss = []
		for s in range(len(src)):
			src_fss.append(macfs.FSSpec(src[s]))
	else:
		src_fss = macfs.FSSpec(src)
	dst_fss = macfs.FSSpec(dstdir)
	return finder.move(src_fss, to=dst_fss)


Jack, is there any chance of this being incorporated into future releases?

-- 
Bill Bedford

"Yes," said the skull.  "Quit while you're a head, that's what I say."