[Pythonmac-SIG] Scripting Sherlock from Python

[Paul McNally]

It might be a great way to learn Python.

Paul

Jack Jansen wrote:

> If anyone happens to be looking for a project to fill a couple of idle hours: I
> just noticed that Sherlock, the 8.5 search engine, is scriptable. Apple
> Technote 1141, http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1141.html , has the
> details.
>
> It would be nice to use this functionality from the IDE. What I'm thinking of
> is a script that you would invoke from the IDE that would get the current
> selection (or interactively ask for a word) and that would use an AppleEvent to
> Sherlock to lookup that selection in the Python manual (or FAQ).
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