Examples

This section provides some general examples on how to use the priint comet Python API.

Reflection

Reflect all comet members and output them to the logfile

#!py
#pragma plain
import inspect
import sys
import comet

def reflect(obj, depth: int = 0):
    #reflect an object by inspecting all attributes and returning a summarizing string
    message = ''

    for name in dir(obj):
        if name.startswith('_'):
            continue
        attr = getattr(obj, name)

        for i in range(depth):
            message += '\t'

        message += '{} - {}\n'.format(name, attr)

        if inspect.isclass(attr) or inspect.ismodule(attr):
            message += reflect(attr, depth + 1)

    return message

def reflectComet():
    #do a full reflection of all comet members and produce a nice formatted output
    message = 'Comet reflection:\n'

    host = comet.host.getType()
    if host == 0:
        message += "Running in InDesign\n"
    if host == 1:
        message += "Running in InDesign Server\n"
    if host == 2:
        message += "Running in comet_pdf\n"
    if host == 3:
        message += "Running in Illustrator\n"

    message += reflect(comet)

    comet.wlog(message)


def main():
    reflectComet()

    return 0