[Pythonmac-SIG] 'Hello World' the OSA Way

[has]

Hey,

Well, it works (with thanks to Jack and Bob for getting me this far;):

#!/usr/local/bin/python

from Carbon.Cm import OpenDefaultComponent
from OSA.OSA import OSAComponentInstance
from aem.types import Codecs
c=Codecs()


ascpt = '''
set s to "hello" & space & "world"
say s using "Zarvox"
return s
'''

ascr = OpenDefaultComponent('osa ', 'ascr')
osac = OSAComponentInstance(ascr)
print `c.unpack(osac.OSADoScript(c.pack(ascpt), 0L, 'TEXT', 0))`
# -> '"hello world"'


Sweet. A couple immediate questions for Jack and anyone else who knows:

- Do I need to close components manually after use, or is that all 
done automatically?

- There's a bunch of OSAxxxx functions not currently implemented by 
OSA.so - what's the deal with those? There's a few I've not grokked 
yet, but I can see several that will be needed to build a 
comprehensively featured alternative to Cocoa's wimpy NSAppleScript.

- Has anyone tested or used the OSA package, written any example 
scripts, etc. yet? Or am I the first?

Ta,

has
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