[Pythonmac-SIG] Announce: OSATools

[Daniel Lord]

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Michael,


> The recent discussion of AppleScript and OSA inspired me to finally
> write a package I've been thinking about for a while. I'm calling it
> OSATools, and it basically is a set of wrappers for the 'osascript' and
> 'osacompile' OS X system calls. There are convenience functions for
> several cases, and a basic but useful class modeling an AppleScript
> interface.
>
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>
> Hope this is useful for someone.
>

While most of us agree that using the OSA interface is the right way to 
go in the long run, this 'quick and dirty" interface is useful for 
testing and RAD. Thank you for producing this. Your solution is 
well-encapsulated OOP and more elegant than my newbie Python skill was 
creating. Very nicely done IMHO. Thank you again. Of ocurse I still 
want to do it old-fashioned and more powerful way as well, but the 
learning curve is much more steep.

Daniel
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daniellordATtelocityDOTcom                                             
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Michael,


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<excerpt>The recent discussion of AppleScript and OSA inspired me to
finally 

write a package I've been thinking about for a while. I'm calling it 

OSATools, and it basically is a set of wrappers for the 'osascript'
and 

'osacompile' OS X system calls. There are convenience functions for 

several cases, and a basic but useful class modeling an AppleScript 

interface.


***


Hope this is useful for someone.


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While most of us agree that using the OSA interface is the right way
to go in the long run, this 'quick and dirty" interface is useful for
testing and RAD. Thank you for producing this. Your solution is
well-encapsulated OOP and more elegant than my newbie Python skill was
creating. Very nicely done IMHO. Thank you again. Of ocurse I still
want to do it old-fashioned and more powerful way as well, but the
learning curve is much more steep.


Daniel

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daniellordATtelocityDOTcom                                            
"My  dancing, drinking, and singing weave me the mat

GPG Fingerprint: C59E 59F5 1C63 5CFB 6161  067E FF00 A4E8 684A 16BB   
upon which my soul will sleep in the world of spirits"

                                                                                         
-- Old Man of Halmahera, Indonesia


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