GitLocker: The Coding Marketplace

Description:

launchd 0.3.0

launchd is a pythonic interface to interact with macOS’s launchd.
It provides access to basic querying and interaction with launchd. It is
implemented using the Objective C
ServiceManagement framework
as well as the launchd command line utility. Therefore, this python package
can only be used on macOS
The python objective C bridge contains some special types. This package strips
off all non built-in type information and returns pure python data.

Examples
The relevant import statement is:
import launchd
Listing all launchd jobs:
for job in launchd.jobs():
print(job.label, job.pid, job.laststatus, job.properties, job.plistfilename)
Find the pid and laststatus of a job:
>>> launchd.LaunchdJob("com.apple.Finder").pid
278

>>> launchd.LaunchdJob("com.apple.Finder").laststatus
0

>>> launchd.LaunchdJob("com.example.fubar").pid
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "launchd/launchctl.py", line 78, in refresh
raise ValueError("job '%s' does not exist" % self.label)
ValueError: job 'com.example.fubar' does not exist
Detect if a job exists:
>>> launchd.LaunchdJob("com.example.fubar").exists()
False
launchd job properties (these come directly from launchd and NOT the .plist files):
>>> launchd.LaunchdJob("com.apple.Finder").properties
{'OnDemand': 1, 'PID': 278, 'PerJobMachServices': {'com.apple.coredrag': 0,
'com.apple.axserver': 0, 'com.apple.CFPasteboardClient': 0,
'com.apple.tsm.portname': 0}, 'LimitLoadToSessionType': 'Aqua',
'Program': '/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder',
'TimeOut': 30, 'LastExitStatus': 0, 'Label': 'com.apple.Finder',
'MachServices': {'com.apple.finder.ServiceProvider': 10}}

>>> launchd.LaunchdJob("com.apple.Finder").properties["OnDemand"]
1
Find all plist filenames of currently running jobs:
for job in launchd.jobs():
if job.pid is None or job.plistfilename is None:
continue
print(job.plistfilename)
Job properties of a given job (this uses the actual .plist file):
>>> launchd.plist.read("com.apple.kextd")
{'ProgramArguments': ['/usr/libexec/kextd'], 'KeepAlive': {'SuccessfulExit': False},
'POSIXSpawnType': 'Interactive', 'MachServices': {'com.apple.KernelExtensionServer':
{'HostSpecialPort': 15}}, 'Label': 'com.apple.kextd'}

Installation
$ pip install launchd
or, if you want to work using the source tarball:
$ python setup.py install

Requirements

OS X >= 10.6
Python 3.4+

Release history

0.3.0 (June 2021)

changed: create directory hierarchy for plist file if not present. issue #6
improved: added automated flake8 tests, check-manifest and safety checks
changed: moved basic CI to GitHub actions

0.2.0 (March 2021)

drop python 2.x, 3.2, 3.3 support
fix plistlib calls (issue #4)

0.1.2 (September 2020)

added tox.ini for easier testing accross interpreter versions
added travis test setup
fixed incompatibility with launchctl in test code
fixed a typo in the README

0.1.1 (November 2013)

Fixed a bug in launchd.plist.read() when no scope was specified

0.1 (November 2013)

Focus: initial public release