[Pythonmac-SIG] detecting aliases

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jun 5, 2005, at 9:52 PM, Lee Cullens wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Bob.  I've been digging around in the Python  
> Documentation Macintosh and more specifically Carbon.File.
> (All seems to be a bit of a secret society :~) with scant docs that  
> are not up to date and no content in __doc__s so it's a little hard  
> going)

It's basically the C APIs, slightly pythonized by a tool called bgen  
(and a bunch of Jack's effort customizing the process).  It's not a  
secret society, just look in Apple's C documentation at <http:// 
developer.apple.com/>, and guess how it would be translated into Python.

-bob