"""icopen patch OVERVIEW icopen patches MacOS Python to use the Internet Config file mappings to select the type and creator for a file. Version 1 released to the public domain 3 November 1999 by Oliver Steele (steele@cs.brandeis.edu). DETAILS This patch causes files created by Python's open(filename, 'w') command (and by functions and scripts that call it) to set the type and creator of the file to the type and creator associated with filename's extension (the portion of the filename after the last period), according to Internet Config. Thus, a script that creates a file foo.html will create one that opens in whatever browser you've set to handle *.html files, and so on. Python IDE uses its own algorithm to select the type and creator for saved editor windows, so this patch won't effect their types. As of System 8.6 at least, Internet Config is built into the system, and the file mappings are accessed from the Advanced pane of the Internet control panel. User Mode (in the Edit menu) needs to be set to Advanced in order to access this pane. INSTALLATION Put this file in your Python path, and create a file named {Python}:sitecustomize.py that contains: import icopen (If {Python}:sitecustomizer.py already exists, just add the 'import' line to it.) The next time you launch PythonInterpreter or Python IDE, the patch will take effect. """ from warnings import warnpy3k warnpy3k("In 3.x, the icopen module is removed.", stacklevel=2) import __builtin__ _builtin_open = globals().get('_builtin_open', __builtin__.open) def _open_with_typer(*args): file = _builtin_open(*args) filename = args[0] mode = 'r' if args[1:]: mode = args[1] if mode[0] == 'w': from ic import error, settypecreator try: settypecreator(filename) except error: pass return file __builtin__.open = _open_with_typer """ open('test.py') _open_with_typer('test.py', 'w') _open_with_typer('test.txt', 'w') _open_with_typer('test.html', 'w') _open_with_typer('test.foo', 'w') """