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/LaunchServices

LaunchServices is a pythonic wrapper for just about everything Apple's Launch Services API has to offer. It was developed primarily to make /aeve a hell of a lot easier to use.

status

LaunchServices is at its first public release, 0.1

examples

   1 >> import LaunchServices as LS
   2 >> LS.GetDisplayNameForPath('/')
   3 u'Crack'
   4 >> LS.GetKindStringForPath('/')
   5 u'Volume'
   6 >> LS.GetApplicationPathForInfo(extension='mp3')
   7 u'/Applications/iTunes.app'
   8 >> LS.GetApplicationPathForInfo(creator='MACS')
   9 u'/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app'
  10 >> LS.FindApplicationPath(bundle='com.apple.iChat')
  11 u'/Applications/iChat.app'
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