[Pythonmac-SIG] Creator, type and other means of file detection

[Nicholas Riley]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 07:34:37PM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Ok, but how can I convert those Ints to string?
> I get them as Ints also from UTGetOSTypeFromString:
> 
> >>> from LaunchServices import UTGetOSTypeFromString
> >>> UTGetOSTypeFromString('public.jpeg')
> 1886741100

>>> from LaunchServices import UTGetOSTypeFromString
>>> ostype = UTGetOSTypeFromString('public.jpeg')
>>> ('%x' % ostype).decode('hex')
'publ'

I don't think that is what you want though.  Instead, use:

>>> import LaunchServices
>>> LaunchServices.UTTypeCopyPreferredTagWithClass('public.jpeg', LaunchServices.kUTTagClassOSType)
u'JPEG'

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