[Pythonmac-SIG] Macintosh Appletalk connections?

[Just van Rossum]

At 10:28 AM -0500 30-03-2000, Schollnick, Benjamin wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I was wondering if there was any method to make a Appletalk "connection" to
>another server, from inside a python program.  In otherwords, mount a
>server's
>drive, from inside a python program.
>
>I was considering FTPing, but I don't think the resource forks would be
>intact after I FTP it over.  I had considered "Stuff"ing the files, but
>then I would have to "unstuff" the files after FTPing 'em.
>
>If anyone has any suggestions or work arounds, please feel free to let me
>know.
>
>The problem is simple, I need to retrieve files off a NT Server, using
>Python
>on the Mac.

Another approach that might work for you is to mount the drive by hand
once, than create an alias to it, and then later use
findertools.launch(pathtoyouraliasfile).

Just