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Unfortunately, reStructuredText requires nested lists to be exactly
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lists require three spaces (or more, depending on how high the numbers
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* Pure Python, cross-platform - no native Mac APIs are used.
* Provides both a Python API and a command-line tool.
* Resource data can be read from either the resource fork or the data fork.
* On Mac systems, the correct fork is selected automatically when reading a file. This allows reading both regular resource forks and resource data stored in data forks (as with ``.rsrc`` and similar files).
* On non-Mac systems, resource forks are not available, so the data fork is always used.
* Compressed resources (supported by System 7 through Mac OS 9) are automatically decompressed.
* Only the standard System 7.0 resource compression methods are supported. Resources that use non-standard decompressors cannot be decompressed.
* Object ``repr``\s are REPL-friendly: all relevant information is displayed, and long data is truncated to avoid filling up the screen by accident.
Requirements
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Limitations
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Sources of information about the resource fork data format, and the structure of common resource types:
* Inside Macintosh, Volume I, Chapter 5 "The Resource Manager". This book can probably be obtained in physical form somewhere, but the relevant chapter/book is also available in a few places online:
- `Apple's legacy documentation <https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/mac/pdf/MoreMacintoshToolbox.pdf>`_
- pagetable.com, a site that happened to have a copy of the book: `info blog post <http://www.pagetable.com/?p=50>`_, `direct download <http://www.weihenstephan.org/~michaste/pagetable/mac/Inside_Macintosh.pdf>`_
* `Apple's legacy documentation <https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/mac/pdf/MoreMacintoshToolbox.pdf>`_
* pagetable.com, a site that happened to have a copy of the book: `info blog post <http://www.pagetable.com/?p=50>`_, `direct download <http://www.weihenstephan.org/~michaste/pagetable/mac/Inside_Macintosh.pdf>`_
* `Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork>`_, of course
* The `Resource Fork <http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Resource_Fork>`_ article on "Just Solve the File Format Problem" (despite the title, this is a decent site and not clickbait)
* The `KSFL <https://github.com/kreativekorp/ksfl>`_ library (and `its wiki <https://github.com/kreativekorp/ksfl/wiki/Macintosh-Resource-File-Format>`_), written in Java, which supports reading and writing resource files
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* Added support for compressed resources.
* Compressed resource data is automatically decompressed, both in the Python API and on the command line.
* This is technically a breaking change, since in previous versions the compressed resource data was returned directly. However, this change will not affect end users negatively, unless one has already implemented custom handling for compressed resources.
* Currently, only the three standard System 7.0 compression formats (``'dcmp'`` IDs 0, 1, 2) are supported. Attempting to access a resource compressed in an unsupported format results in a ``DecompressError``.