2 :mod:`ic` --- Access to the Mac OS X Internet Config
3 ====================================================
7 :synopsis: Access to the Mac OS X Internet Config.
11 This module provides access to various internet-related preferences set through
12 :program:`System Preferences` or the :program:`Finder`.
16 This module is removed in 3.0.
19 .. index:: module: icglue
21 There is a low-level companion module :mod:`icglue` which provides the basic
22 Internet Config access functionality. This low-level module is not documented,
23 but the docstrings of the routines document the parameters and the routine names
24 are the same as for the Pascal or C API to Internet Config, so the standard IC
25 programmers' documentation can be used if this module is needed.
27 The :mod:`ic` module defines the :exc:`error` exception and symbolic names for
28 all error codes Internet Config can produce; see the source for details.
33 Exception raised on errors in the :mod:`ic` module.
35 The :mod:`ic` module defines the following class and function:
38 .. class:: IC([signature[, ic]])
40 Create an Internet Config object. The signature is a 4-character creator code of
41 the current application (default ``'Pyth'``) which may influence some of ICs
42 settings. The optional *ic* argument is a low-level ``icglue.icinstance``
43 created beforehand, this may be useful if you want to get preferences from a
44 different config file, etc.
47 .. function:: launchurl(url[, hint])
48 parseurl(data[, start[, end[, hint]]])
50 maptypecreator(type, creator[, filename])
53 These functions are "shortcuts" to the methods of the same name, described
60 :class:`IC` objects have a mapping interface, hence to obtain the mail address
61 you simply get ``ic['MailAddress']``. Assignment also works, and changes the
62 option in the configuration file.
64 The module knows about various datatypes, and converts the internal IC
65 representation to a "logical" Python data structure. Running the :mod:`ic`
66 module standalone will run a test program that lists all keys and values in your
67 IC database, this will have to serve as documentation.
69 If the module does not know how to represent the data it returns an instance of
70 the ``ICOpaqueData`` type, with the raw data in its :attr:`data` attribute.
71 Objects of this type are also acceptable values for assignment.
73 Besides the dictionary interface, :class:`IC` objects have the following
77 .. method:: IC.launchurl(url[, hint])
79 Parse the given URL, launch the correct application and pass it the URL. The
80 optional *hint* can be a scheme name such as ``'mailto:'``, in which case
81 incomplete URLs are completed with this scheme. If *hint* is not provided,
82 incomplete URLs are invalid.
85 .. method:: IC.parseurl(data[, start[, end[, hint]]])
87 Find an URL somewhere in *data* and return start position, end position and the
88 URL. The optional *start* and *end* can be used to limit the search, so for
89 instance if a user clicks in a long text field you can pass the whole text field
90 and the click-position in *start* and this routine will return the whole URL in
91 which the user clicked. As above, *hint* is an optional scheme used to complete
95 .. method:: IC.mapfile(file)
97 Return the mapping entry for the given *file*, which can be passed as either a
98 filename or an :func:`FSSpec` result, and which need not exist.
100 The mapping entry is returned as a tuple ``(version, type, creator, postcreator,
101 flags, extension, appname, postappname, mimetype, entryname)``, where *version*
102 is the entry version number, *type* is the 4-character filetype, *creator* is
103 the 4-character creator type, *postcreator* is the 4-character creator code of
104 an optional application to post-process the file after downloading, *flags* are
105 various bits specifying whether to transfer in binary or ascii and such,
106 *extension* is the filename extension for this file type, *appname* is the
107 printable name of the application to which this file belongs, *postappname* is
108 the name of the postprocessing application, *mimetype* is the MIME type of this
109 file and *entryname* is the name of this entry.
112 .. method:: IC.maptypecreator(type, creator[, filename])
114 Return the mapping entry for files with given 4-character *type* and *creator*
115 codes. The optional *filename* may be specified to further help finding the
116 correct entry (if the creator code is ``'????'``, for instance).
118 The mapping entry is returned in the same format as for *mapfile*.
121 .. method:: IC.settypecreator(file)
123 Given an existing *file*, specified either as a filename or as an :func:`FSSpec`
124 result, set its creator and type correctly based on its extension. The finder
125 is told about the change, so the finder icon will be updated quickly.