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.