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To script Photoshop (or any Mac OS X application that uses apple scripting) using Python, you need appscript. Appscript is a wrapper around Applescript and provides an (almost) intuitive OO-approach to scripting. You can compile it yourself, or use my precompiled package. To install the precompiled package, unpack it in /Library/Python/2.3 . There should now be a couple of folders and files: aem, appscript, HTMLTemplate.py and HTMLTemplate.pyc, LaunchServices, osaterminology and osax.

Mac OS X v.10.5 includes a new framework called Scripting Bridge that enables common languages, such as Ruby, Python, and Objective-C, to easily send Apple Events to scriptable applications.

to build a trivial little AppleScript to invoke my Python script straight from Mail.app, based on the premise that the numeric part of the filename is actually unique on Mail’s filesystem tree and that it matches the message id that you can (quite trivially) obtain in a script such as: