Determine current Mac Safari web page using Python

Question

Is there a way to determine programmatically, using Python, which web page is currently active in Safari?

Answer 1

An Applescript example is here, and the relevant part is:

tell application "Safari"
    set url_list to URL of every document
end tell

Python/AppleScript translation is covered here. E.g., install appscript as described here:

sudo easy_install appscript

and then, as shown here, you can do e.g.:

>>> import appscript
>>> print appscript.app("Safari").windows.first.current_tab.URL()
http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython/Safari