[Pythonmac-SIG] appscript

[Daniel Lord]

My profile is close except I moved to Python 2.5:
Macbbok Pro Core 2 Duo, 2.33GHz, 2GB, 10.4.8

cannot reproduce, long pause while iTunes launches though...

daniello at mercury  Thu Feb 22 11:44:38P [ 1 ]
~/ python
Python 2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> from appscript import *
 >>> itunes = app("iTunes")
 >>> itunes.name.get()
u'iTunes'
 >>>

More interestingly,
This begs the question: if I could figure out how to keep both 2.4  
and 2.5 in the same system and playing nicely, I would and that would  
make testing easier.
The best way would be able to run OS X in a VM but we all know _that_  
isn't coming any time soon ;-(
I suppose I could install the OS on some external volumes to plug  
into the Macbook and reboot.

If I install 2.4, then link the binary to /usr/bin/python24, then  
overlay 2.5, tit seems simple, but the Devil is in the details.
Even if I invoke python2.4, the global environment points to Python  
2.5 and things could get ugly fast I am guessing.


On Feb 22, 2007, at 7:04, has wrote:

> Christian Bird wrote:
>
>> I just found out about appscript and am attempting to use it on my
>> macbook pro (OS X 10.4.8 and python 2.4.3).  I installed appscript,
>> but the following is what I get when I try to test it out.  [...]
>> The same error appears regardless of which
>> app I try to control (and yes, itunes is running when I tried this).
>
>> (aem.Application(u'/Applications/iTunes.app')): CommandError -600: no
>> eligible process with specified descriptor
>
> Hmmm. This is the first time I've heard of such a problem, and I'm
> unable to replicate the error here on my i386 test box (Core Solo
> Mini, OS 10.4.6, Python 2.4.3, appscript 0.17.0):
>
> [mini:~] has% python2.4
> Python 2.4.3 (#1, Mar 30 2006, 11:02:16)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> from appscript import *
>>>> a = app('itunes')
>>>> a
> app(u'/Applications/iTunes.app')
>>>> a.name
> app(u'/Applications/iTunes.app').name
>
>
> Which Python distribution and appscript version are you using?
>
> Also, could anyone else here who has a similar setup to Christian
> please try the above and let us know if it works ok or not for them?
>
> has
> -- 
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>
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