25.08 Mac in the Shell: Accessing AddressBook with PyObjC

by Edward Marczak
Aug, 2009 Issue

Article Synopsis

Last month, we covered some basic text parsing using Python. I personally love the topic, as it's really applicable across a wide range of problems. But it was also fairly generic: that code will run on any platform with Python installed. Better yet: we can combine the text processing of standard Python with the OS X-specific PyObj-C libraries that let us tie into Cocoa APIs. This month, we'll look at AddressBook.

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