mac_alias package¶

Classes¶

class mac_alias.Alias(appinfo='x00x00x00x00', version=2, volume=None, target=None, extra=[])¶

appinfo = None¶: Application specific information (four byte byte-string)

extra = None¶: A list of extra (tag, value) pairs

classmethod for_file(path)¶: Create an Alias that points at the specified file.

classmethod from_bytes(bytes)¶: Construct an Alias object given binary Alias data.

target = None¶: A TargetInfo object describing the target

to_bytes()¶: Returns the binary representation for this Alias.

version = None¶: Version (we support only version 2)

volume = None¶: A VolumeInfo object describing the target’s volume

class mac_alias.AppleShareInfo(zone=None, server=None, user=None)¶

server = None¶: The AFP server

user = None¶: The username

zone = None¶: The AppleShare zone

class mac_alias.TargetInfo(kind, filename, folder_cnid, cnid, creation_date, creator_code, type_code, levels_from=-1, levels_to=-1, folder_name=None, cnid_path=None, carbon_path=None, posix_path=None, user_home_prefix_len=None)¶

carbon_path = None¶: The Carbon path of the target (optional)

cnid = None¶: The CNID (Catalog Node ID) of the target

cnid_path = None¶: The path from the volume root as a sequence of CNIDs. (optional)

creation_date = None¶: The target’s creation date.

creator_code = None¶: The target’s Mac creator code (a four-character binary string)

filename = None¶: The filename of the target

folder_cnid = None¶: The CNID (Catalog Node ID) of the target’s containing folder; CNIDs are similar to but different than traditional UNIX inode numbers

folder_name = None¶: The (POSIX) name of the target’s containing folder. (optional)

kind = None¶: Either ALIAS_KIND_FILE or ALIAS_KIND_FOLDER

levels_from = None¶: The depth of the alias? Always seems to be -1 on OS X.

levels_to = None¶: The depth of the target? Always seems to be -1 on OS X.

posix_path = None¶: The POSIX path of the target relative to the volume root. Note that this may or may not have a leading ‘/’ character, but it is always relative to the containing volume. (optional)

type_code = None¶: The target’s Mac type code (a four-character binary string)

user_home_prefix_len = None¶: If the path points into a user’s home folder, the number of folders deep that we go before we get to that home folder. (optional)

Constants¶

mac_alias.ALIAS_KIND_FILE¶
mac_alias.ALIAS_KIND_FOLDER¶: Values for the kind attribute.

mac_alias.ALIAS_HFS_VOLUME_SIGNATURE¶: The volume signature for HFS+.

mac_alias.ALIAS_FIXED_DISK¶
mac_alias.ALIAS_NETWORK_DISK¶
mac_alias.ALIAS_400KB_FLOPPY_DISK¶
mac_alias.ALIAS_800KB_FLOPPY_DISK¶
mac_alias.ALIAS_1_44MB_FLOPPY_DISK¶
mac_alias.ALIAS_EJECTABLE_DISK¶: Disk type constants.

mac_alias.ALIAS_NO_CNID¶: A constant used where no CNID is present.