[Pythonmac-SIG] HFS versus POSIX paths (changed from fixing the documentation)

[Daniel Lord]

On Apr 21, 2006, at 3:06, has wrote:

> Daniel Lord wrote:
>
>> I am writing an app combining excel and python/appscript to fetch  
>> quotes from the web and value stock portfolios .
>> But I give up on using appscript with Excel--some things just  
>> don't work because I think the terminology is seriously warped if  
>> no broken. Applescriptworks but appscript doesn't.
>
> Please send examples of where breakage occurs so I can figure out why.

I'll get around to this in a little while--I kind of shelved that  
project after I got tired of using hacks to bring Excel 'to heel'
>
>> I instead build a text Applescript from strings and use popen2 to  
>> invoke osascript like this example which reads in the stock  
>> symbols from a named range in an excel spreadsheet:
>
> The osax module provides a runscript() function that's easier to  
> use if you're just wanting to pass in parameters. (It's a simple  
> wrapper around Standard Additions' 'run script' command.)
>
> Or I can supply a rough version of osawrapper, which is a high- 
> level wrapper around CarbonX.OSA; gives you much more power/ 
> flexibility when using AS from Python. Just ask.

Sure. Maybe I'll see if I can improve on it given you said it was  
rough. I need to learn a lot more about OSA, AE, etc. first though.

Daniel