[Pythonmac-SIG] mactypes Alias/File object question

[Nicholas Riley]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:26:52AM -0700, Jeffery Beeland wrote:
> I'm using appscript to interface with Photoshop, which has gone pretty 
> well to this point.  The problem is that I can't seem to find a way to 
> get a posix path out of an Alias or File object from mactypes.  As best 
> I can tell there are no public methods for the classes.  This becomes a 
> problem when I want to query a list of open documents and expect to be 
> able to get at the actual file path for something like display of file 
> information in a UI component.

No public methods, but a public property (path) will give you what you
want.

    <http://appscript.sourceforge.net/py-appscript/doc/mactypes/>

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Nicholas Riley <njriley at uiuc.edu>