5. Keyword conversion
Keyword conversion
Because application terminology resources specify AppleScript-style keywords for class, property, command, etc. names, appscript uses the following rules to translate these keywords to legal Python identifiers:
- Characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and underscores (_) are preserved.
- Spaces, hyphens (-) and forward slashes (/) are replaced with underscores.
- Ampersands (&) are replaced by the word 'and'.
- All other characters are converted to 0x00-style hexadecimal representations.
- Names that match Python keywords or names reserved by appscript have an underscore appended. The following names are reserved by appscript:
See Python'saborttransaction help after ID AND ignore any isin before isnotin beginning last beginswith middle begintransaction next contains NOT doesnotbeginwith OR doesnotcontain previous doesnotendwith relaunchmode end resulttype endswith timeout endtransaction waitreply first
keyword
module for a list of reserved Python keywords. - Appscript defines default terminology for standard type classes such as
integer
andunicode_text
, and standard commands such asopen
andquit
. If an application-defined name matches a built-in name but has a different Apple event code, appscript will append an underscore to the application-defined name.
You can use ASDictionary or appscript's built-in help
method to export or view application terminology in appscript format. See the Getting Help chapter for more information.