[Pythonmac-SIG] appscript docs (was: Path conversions)

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2008-02-27 um 21:57 schrieb Ned Deily:

> The macfile module of py-appscript was renamed to mactypes.  So, with
> the lastest versions of py-appscript, you'll need to change
> macfile.Alias() to mactypes.Alias().  See the doc files included with
> the py-appscript source download:  <http:// 
> appscript.sourceforge.net/>.

Thank you for your answer and sorry for my delay.
mactypes.Alias and mactypes.File do what I need, as far as I tested.

Is there any reason why the appscript docs aren't available online?
The Homepage doesn't even mention that there's documentation included  
somewhere!

BTW I found some minor flaws:

* copyright notice is still 2004

* 03_quicktutorial.html:

It would be nice if it would explain how to set TextEdit's  
document.text to unicode text - I didn't find a way.
Later: AARRGH - it works from the shell (simply using unicode  
objects), but not from within PyCrust.
So there's a dependency from Python's environment - can't tell which  
exactly.

* in 06_classesandenums.html:

app('Finder').home.get(type=k.file_url)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<input>", line 1, in ?
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/ 
python2.4/site-packages/appscript-0.18.1-py2.4-macosx-10.3-fat.egg/ 
appscript/reference.py", line 391, in __call__
     raise TypeError, 'Unknown keyword argument %r.' % name
TypeError: Unknown keyword argument 'type'.

(I get the Unknown keyword error for every keyword I tried. So it  
looks like an error on my side, but I've no clue what could be wrong.)

* in 14_notes.html:
"""Dealing with problem applications

Appscript provides a number of mechanisms for dealing with  
problematic applications. See the appscript website for more  
information."""

See the appscript website?? There's not too much information on  
anything...




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