Macintosh Library Modules

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Contents

• Front Matter
• 1. Using Python on the Macintosh
  • 1.1 Getting and Installing MacPython
  • 1.2 Entering the interactive Interpreter
  • 1.3 How to run a Python script
    • 1.3.1 Drag and drop
    • 1.3.2 Set Creator and Double Click
  • 1.4 Simulating command line arguments
  • 1.5 Creating a Python script
    • 1.5.1 In an editor
  • 1.6 The IDE
    • 1.6.1 Using the ``Python Interactive'' window
    • 1.6.2 Writing a Python Script
    • 1.6.3 Executing a script from within the IDE
    • 1.6.4 ``Save as'' versus ``Save as Applet''
  • 1.7 Configuration
    • 1.7.1 EditPythonPrefs
    • 1.7.2 Adding modules to the Module Search Path
    • 1.7.3 Default startup options
  • 1.8 Mac OS X
• 2. MacPython Modules
  • 2.1 mac -- Implementations for the os module
  • 2.2 macpath -- MacOS path manipulation functions
  • 2.3 ctb -- Interface to the Communications Tool Box
    • 2.3.1 Connection Objects
  • 2.4 macfs -- Various file system services
    • 2.4.1 FSSpec objects
    • 2.4.2 Alias Objects
    • 2.4.3 FInfo Objects
  • 2.5 ic -- Access to Internet Config
    • 2.5.1 IC Objects
  • 2.6 MacOS -- Access to Mac OS interpreter features
  • 2.7 macostools -- Convenience routines for file manipulation
  • 2.8 findertools -- The finder's Apple Events interface
  • 2.9 macspeech -- Interface to the Macintosh Speech Manager
    • 2.9.1 Voice Objects
    • 2.9.2 Speech Channel Objects
  • 2.10 EasyDialogs -- Basic Macintosh dialogs
  • 2.11 FrameWork -- Interactive application framework
    • 2.11.1 Application Objects
    • 2.11.2 Window Objects
    • 2.11.3 ControlsWindow Object
    • 2.11.4 ScrolledWindow Object
    • 2.11.5 DialogWindow Objects
  • 2.12 MiniAEFrame -- Open Scripting Architecture server support
    • 2.12.1 AEServer Objects
  • 2.13 aepack -- Conversion between Python variables and AppleEvent data containers
  • 2.14 aetypes -- AppleEvent objects
• 3. MacOS Toolbox Modules
  • 3.1 Carbon.AE -- Apple Events
  • 3.2 Carbon.App -- Appearance Manager
  • 3.3 Carbon.CF -- Core Foundation
  • 3.4 Carbon.Cm -- Component Manager
  • 3.5 Carbon.Ctl -- Control Manager
  • 3.6 Carbon.Dlg -- Dialog Manager
  • 3.7 Carbon.Evt -- Event Manager
  • 3.8 Carbon.Fm -- Font Manager
  • 3.9 Carbon.Help -- Help Manager
  • 3.10 Carbon.List -- List Manager
  • 3.11 Carbon.Menu -- Menu Manager
  • 3.12 Carbon.Mlte -- MultiLingual Text Editor
  • 3.13 Carbon.Qd -- QuickDraw
  • 3.14 Carbon.Qdoffs -- QuickDraw Offscreen
  • 3.15 Carbon.Qt -- QuickTime
  • 3.16 Carbon.Res -- Resource Manager and Handles
  • 3.17 Carbon.Scrap -- Scrap Manager
  • 3.18 Carbon.Snd -- Sound Manager
  • 3.19 Carbon.TE -- TextEdit
  • 3.20 Carbon.Win -- Window Manager
  • 3.21 ColorPicker -- Color selection dialog
• 4. Undocumented Modules
  • 4.1 applesingle -- AppleSingle decoder
  • 4.2 buildtools -- Helper module for BuildApplet and Friends
  • 4.3 py_resource -- Resources from Python code
  • 4.4 cfmfile -- Code Fragment Resource module
  • 4.5 icopen -- Internet Config replacement for open()
  • 4.6 macerrors -- Mac OS Errors
  • 4.7 macfsn -- NavServices calls
  • 4.8 macresource -- Locate script resources
  • 4.9 Nav -- NavServices calls
  • 4.10 mactty -- Serial line connections
  • 4.11 mkcwproject -- Create CodeWarrior projects
  • 4.12 nsremote -- Wrapper around Netscape OSA modules
  • 4.13 PixMapWrapper -- Wrapper for PixMap objects
  • 4.14 preferences -- Application preferences manager
  • 4.15 pythonprefs -- Preferences manager for Python
  • 4.16 quietconsole -- non-visible stdout output
  • 4.17 videoreader -- read QuickTime movies
  • 4.18 W -- Widgets built on FrameWork
  • 4.19 waste -- non-Apple TextEdit replacement
• A. History and License
  • A.1 History of the software
  • A.2 Terms and conditions for accessing or otherwise using Python
• Module Index
• Index
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Macintosh Library Modules

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Release 2.2, documentation updated on December 21, 2001.