WARNING: This repo is deprecated. https://github.com/xattr/xattr now supports Python 2.6+ and Python 3.3+ as of v0.7.2. xattr is a Python wrapper for Darwin's extended filesystem attributes Extended attributes extend the basic attributes of files and directories in the file system. They are stored as name:data pairs associated with file system objects (files, directories, symlinks, etc). Extended attributes are currently only available on Darwin 8.0 and later. This corresponds to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).