[Pythonmac-SIG] Spotlight and Python

[Schollnick, Benjamin]

Jon,

One important issue...

> > 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.

So, to summarize...

1) It has indexed files that are part of Python packages
2) It has not indexed files in his home directory
	a) Most were created with Emacs / Linux systems

So the UTI for python files may not be attached to those files
MetaData....

Could that be preventing the indexer from operating?

		- Benjamin



> -----Original Message-----
> From: pythonmac-sig-bounces at python.org 
> [mailto:pythonmac-sig-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Wight
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 11:07 AM
> To: David Reed
> Cc: PythonMac
> Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Spotlight and Python
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
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