[Pythonmac-SIG] Spotlight and Python

[Jonathan Wight]

It is entirely possible I screwed something up and that it doesn't  
work on anything other than my Powerbook ;-)

However:

As the last part of the install process the installer kicks off a  
script to reindex the Python files on the hard drive. This could be  
failing. To manually reindex runt this:

mdimport -r /Library/Spotlight/Python\ Metadata\ Importer.mdimporter/

You should see a response like this:

2005-05-11 10:55:48.004 mdimport[21563] Asking server to reimport  
files with UTIs: (
     "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge81a8k",
     "dyn.ah62d4rv4gq81k3p2su11upputf4gu55sfz30g6xmsb4a",
     "public.python-script"
)

On my machine with 2748 python files indexable by Spotlight ( mdfind  
'kMDItemContentType == "public.python-script' | wc -l ) it seems to  
take less than 5 minutes with 2 mdimport tasks running at between  
30-70% CPU.

Note that spotlight doesn't index Python.framework by default - so  
you'd need to configure that somehow (perhaps via the .Spotlight-V100  
directory).

To confirm that the Python mdimporter is working run mdimport against  
a python file (with classes & functions declared) with debugging  
turned on. You should see something like this, note that mdimport is  
using the Python mdimporter and that the 'org_python_functions'  
attribute is present in the output:

mdimport -d 2 myimporter.py

2005-05-11 11:03:51.318 mdimport[21650] Import '/Volumes/Home/Users/ 
schwa/Desktop/Python Metadata Importer/myimporter.py' type  
'public.python-script' using 'file://localhost/Library/Spotlight/ 
Python%20Metadata%20Importer.mdimporter/'
2005-05-11 11:03:51.622 mdimport[21650] Done.
2005-05-11 11:03:51.624 mdimport[21650] Sending attributes of '/ 
Volumes/Home/Users/schwa/Desktop/Python Metadata Importer/ 
myimporter.py' to server.  Attributes: '{
     "com_apple_metadata_modtime" = 137481386;
     kMDItemContentCreationDate = "2005-05-11 00:03:18 -0400";
     kMDItemContentModificationDate = "2005-05-11 01:16:26 -0400";
     kMDItemContentType = "public.python-script";
     kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
         "public.python-script",
         "public.shell-script",
         "public.script",
         "public.source-code",
         "public.plain-text",
         "public.text",
         "public.data",
         "public.item",
         "public.content"
     );
     kMDItemDisplayName = {"" = "myimporter.py"; };
     kMDItemKind = {"" = "Python Script"; };
     "org_python_classes" = ();
     "org_python_functions" = (find, main);

Let me know if this works.

     Jon.

On May 11, 2005, at 10:51, David Reed wrote:

> Thanks for working on this. I'm not certain it is working  
> correctly. I installed it about 3 hours ago so I would think it has  
> had time to index my drive by now. It does seem to have indexed  
> files that are part of python packages but it hasn't index Python  
> files in my home directory and subdirectories. Is it skipping these  
> on purpose or does it somehow not realize they are Python files  
> (most of them were created with emacs and many on Linux systems  
> before I switched to a Mac)? They all do have a .py extension.
>
> Also, how do you uninstall your plugin?
>
> I do have XCode installed.