[Pythonmac-SIG] Creating MacBinary files from python

[Jack Jansen]

On donderdag, dec 5, 2002, at 21:05 Europe/Amsterdam, Chip Brown wrote:

> I need a way to create Stuffit compatible zip files from within 
> python. My experimentation indicates that a Stuffit created zip file 
> is a collection of MacBinary files, zipped up.
>
> I should therefore be able to create a Stuffit compatible zip file 
> from within python (which has built in zip support) as long as I can 
> get the MacBinary versions of the included files.
>
> Does anyone out there knows of a python module (that actually works) 
> which can create and disassemble MacBinary files, I would LOVE to know 
> about it. There are such things for PERL and TCL, but I have not been 
> able to find a python version...

I started on a macbinary module years ago, but it never got finished. I 
remember that I got stuck because there were somethings in the 
MacBinary format that made it non-trivial. (The format is 
well-documented, a google search should turn it up).

If you do write something up yourself: please contribute it. It would 
be a handy module to have,
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