Re: gio.File --- removing attributes

[John Palmieri <johnp redhat com>]

Looks like you are using the static bindings in which case you should ask the pygtk list - http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk.  For interfaces that take a NULL, None is used to denote that. 

----- "Romano Giannetti" <romano dea icai upcomillas es> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	First of all, sorry if I am writing to the wrong mailing list. I am
> looking for a way to remove an attribute by using
> gio.File.set_attribute() call. In the C equivalent, it seems that
> passing a NULL value_p will remove the attribute. I tried various way
> to
> do that, without luck. 
> 
> 	To explain: I can set an emblem for a file like that: 
> 
> mydir=gio.File("./tmp")                                               
>    
> mydirr.set_attribute("metadata::emblems",                             
>       
>   gio.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_STRINGV, ["RGeducation", "hot"]) 
> 
> but after that I did not find any way to pass the equivalent of NULL
> to
> the value to completely remove the attribute. If I pass a [], the
> attribute is still there, with a [] value. 
> 
> On the other end, by l-tracing gvfs-set-attribute -t unset ./tmp, it
> seems that g_file_set_attribute is simple called with a NULL value_p.
> 
> 
> It's me doing something bad here? Thanks for any help. 
>  
> 	Romano Giannetti
> 
> PD I am not subscribed to the list. If you can, please Cc: me the
> answer. I will nevertheless check the archives. 
> 
> 
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