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List Your PPC Only Apps


Nice little script to list your PPC only apps. This is from “dhaveconfig” at Ars Technica. (Note I modified his script a little for my script below)

Why would you want to do this? Well it would be nice to be Intel only once you start running Snow Leopard. I found a variety of old games that were PPC only. The big PPC stuff I worry about is eFax Messenger, Print Shop (for my wife) and my Epson scan software.

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#!/usr/bin/env python
 
import plistlib
import subprocess
 
ppc_apps = []
 
command = ["system_profiler", "-xml", "SPApplicationsDataType"]
task = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
(stdout, unused_stderr) = task.communicate()
 
apps = plistlib.readPlistFromString(stdout)[0]["_items"]
 
for app in apps:
  if "runtime_environment" in app:
    # change to "classic" to list Sys9 apps
    if app["runtime_environment"] == "arch_ppc":        ppc_apps.append(app["path"])
 
print "\n".join(ppc_apps)

You may get a warning on standard err about old plist parsers. Just ignore that. (I’m too lazy to see which application has a bad plist)

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