Trivial wrapper providing tidy python access to the openmeta command-line client to set OS X openmeta tags on files
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pythonic file tagging
Simple-to-trivial wrapper for OpenMeta. Rather than re-implementing OpenMeta using, say, Bob Ippolito’s excellent xattr, I decided to do it by wrapping the already-functional CLI binary, on advice from those more experienced than myself who suggested that the pain in getting OpenMeta working as advertised from the direct xattr business was great and terrible.
Warning - this thing does rely on parsing the output of CLI apps, with the flakiness and performance troubles that implies. However, it’s working reliably for me.
Usage
>>> import openmeta >>> open('./test.txt', 'w').close() >>> openmeta.set_tags('./test.txt', ['foo', 'bar']) >>> openmeta.get_meta('./test.txt')['tags'] ['foo', 'bar']
TODO
more graceful error message when the openmeta CLI binary is not installed
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Release date: 16-March-2011
I spin this package off https://bitbucket.org/howthebodyworks/possumpalace_kit/src/23e924ba53e8/_lib/citeulike/
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