API Notes: AE framework

Apple documentation

The full API is described in Apple’s documentation, both the C and Objective-C APIs are available (but see the API Notes below).

These bindings are accessed through the CoreServices package (that is, import CoreServices).

API Notes

typeSMInt, typeShortInteger, typeInteger, typeLongInteger, typeMagnitude, typeComp, typeSMFloat, typeShortFloat, typeFloat, typeLongFloat, typeExtended, typeFSS ……………………….. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

These constants are not available in Python. Apple has removed these for 64-bit code and I’ve decided to not make them available at all to Python code.