1:mod:`ic` --- Access to the Mac OS X Internet Config 2==================================================== 3 4.. module:: ic 5 :platform: Mac 6 :synopsis: Access to the Mac OS X Internet Config. 7 :deprecated: 8 9 10This module provides access to various internet-related preferences set through 11:program:`System Preferences` or the :program:`Finder`. 12 13.. note:: 14 15 This module has been removed in Python 3.x. 16 17 18.. index:: module: icglue 19 20There is a low-level companion module :mod:`icglue` which provides the basic 21Internet Config access functionality. This low-level module is not documented, 22but the docstrings of the routines document the parameters and the routine names 23are the same as for the Pascal or C API to Internet Config, so the standard IC 24programmers' documentation can be used if this module is needed. 25 26The :mod:`ic` module defines the :exc:`error` exception and symbolic names for 27all error codes Internet Config can produce; see the source for details. 28 29 30.. exception:: error 31 32 Exception raised on errors in the :mod:`ic` module. 33 34The :mod:`ic` module defines the following class and function: 35 36 37.. class:: IC([signature[, ic]]) 38 39 Create an Internet Config object. The signature is a 4-character creator code of 40 the current application (default ``'Pyth'``) which may influence some of ICs 41 settings. The optional *ic* argument is a low-level ``icglue.icinstance`` 42 created beforehand, this may be useful if you want to get preferences from a 43 different config file, etc. 44 45 46.. function:: launchurl(url[, hint]) 47 parseurl(data[, start[, end[, hint]]]) 48 mapfile(file) 49 maptypecreator(type, creator[, filename]) 50 settypecreator(file) 51 52 These functions are "shortcuts" to the methods of the same name, described 53 below. 54 55 56IC Objects 57---------- 58 59:class:`IC` objects have a mapping interface, hence to obtain the mail address 60you simply get ``ic['MailAddress']``. Assignment also works, and changes the 61option in the configuration file. 62 63The module knows about various datatypes, and converts the internal IC 64representation to a "logical" Python data structure. Running the :mod:`ic` 65module standalone will run a test program that lists all keys and values in your 66IC database, this will have to serve as documentation. 67 68If the module does not know how to represent the data it returns an instance of 69the ``ICOpaqueData`` type, with the raw data in its :attr:`data` attribute. 70Objects of this type are also acceptable values for assignment. 71 72Besides the dictionary interface, :class:`IC` objects have the following 73methods: 74 75 76.. method:: IC.launchurl(url[, hint]) 77 78 Parse the given URL, launch the correct application and pass it the URL. The 79 optional *hint* can be a scheme name such as ``'mailto:'``, in which case 80 incomplete URLs are completed with this scheme. If *hint* is not provided, 81 incomplete URLs are invalid. 82 83 84.. method:: IC.parseurl(data[, start[, end[, hint]]]) 85 86 Find a URL somewhere in *data* and return start position, end position and the 87 URL. The optional *start* and *end* can be used to limit the search, so for 88 instance if a user clicks in a long text field you can pass the whole text field 89 and the click-position in *start* and this routine will return the whole URL in 90 which the user clicked. As above, *hint* is an optional scheme used to complete 91 incomplete URLs. 92 93 94.. method:: IC.mapfile(file) 95 96 Return the mapping entry for the given *file*, which can be passed as either a 97 filename or an :func:`FSSpec` result, and which need not exist. 98 99 The mapping entry is returned as a tuple ``(version, type, creator, postcreator, 100 flags, extension, appname, postappname, mimetype, entryname)``, where *version* 101 is the entry version number, *type* is the 4-character filetype, *creator* is 102 the 4-character creator type, *postcreator* is the 4-character creator code of 103 an optional application to post-process the file after downloading, *flags* are 104 various bits specifying whether to transfer in binary or ascii and such, 105 *extension* is the filename extension for this file type, *appname* is the 106 printable name of the application to which this file belongs, *postappname* is 107 the name of the postprocessing application, *mimetype* is the MIME type of this 108 file and *entryname* is the name of this entry. 109 110 111.. method:: IC.maptypecreator(type, creator[, filename]) 112 113 Return the mapping entry for files with given 4-character *type* and *creator* 114 codes. The optional *filename* may be specified to further help finding the 115 correct entry (if the creator code is ``'????'``, for instance). 116 117 The mapping entry is returned in the same format as for *mapfile*. 118 119 120.. method:: IC.settypecreator(file) 121 122 Given an existing *file*, specified either as a filename or as an :func:`FSSpec` 123 result, set its creator and type correctly based on its extension. The finder 124 is told about the change, so the finder icon will be updated quickly. 125