Enable access for assistive devices programmatically on 10.9

Question

I want to enable access for assistive devices programatically on 10.9. On 10.8 and lower I was using following Applescript to enable access for assistive devices:

Answer 1

Thanks for this shell script samples from @NightFlight, which are really helpful. I used this with AppleScript in a Python application, like the following:

set sh to "touch /private/var/db/.AccessibilityAPIEnabled && sqlite3 \\"/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db\\" \\"INSERT or REPLACE INTO access VALUES('kTCCServiceAccessibility','com.godevnode',0,1,0,NULL);\\""
do shell script sh with administrator privileges

It worked well for me in Python code as a string.

Edit (Nov 7, 2014):

If you want to try this in AppleScript Editor, use a slightly different character escape as below:

set sh to "touch /private/var/db/.AccessibilityAPIEnabled && sqlite3 \"/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db\" \"INSERT or REPLACE INTO access VALUES('kTCCServiceAccessibility','com.godevnode',0,1,0,NULL);\""
do shell script sh with administrator privileges

For Mac OS X before 10.9, it's even simpler:

accessibility_api_file = "/private/var/db/.AccessibilityAPIEnabled"

def __enable_accessibility_api():
    try:
        script = 'do shell script "touch %s" with administrator ' \
                 'privileges' % accessibility_api_file
        result = applescript.AppleScript(script).run()
        log.debug("Tried to enable accessibility api, result=" + result)
        return True
    except applescript.ScriptError as err:
        log.error(str(err))
    return False

Just need to touch one file. The AppleScript mentioned in the Python code above can also be used in other languages.