Search for PPC-only or Classic apps on a Mac

find_ppc.py

#!/usr/bin/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:
    if app["runtime_environment"] in ["classic", "arch_ppc"]:
      ppc_apps.append((app["path"], app["runtime_environment"]))

for (app, runtime_env) in ppc_apps:
    print app, '\t', runtime_env