[Pythonmac-SIG] PythonMac vs Python Unix for Mac OSX cgi

Jack Jansen jack@oratrix.nl
Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:17:34 +0200


> On Thursday, March 29, 2001, at 08:53 AM, Steven D. Majewski wrote:
> 
>  > If you want to interface with AppleScript,
>  > use Carbon MacPython.
> 
> I just thought I'd share an awful trick that I discovered yesterday.
> I'm more used to unix python, so I'm using that, but you can get
> unix python to call applescript by writing the script to a text
> file, then calling /usr/bin/osascript on that file via os.system.

Someone could try porting the "osam" contributed software from MacPython to 
unix-Python. I think all the needed libraries are available, and as this 
module is rather self-contained it should port more-or-less easily.
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