[Pyobjc-dev] NSCoding support for Python objects

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

Hi,

I've just commited a patch that adds support for the NSCoding support  
to the OC_Python* classes that bridge Python objects into the  
Objective-C world. This means that it is now possible to use an  
NSKeyedArchiver to store plain Python objects (basicly anything that  
can be stored in a pickle).

The tree might be a but unstable due to this change, getting this to  
work correctly was more work that I had expected and there are some  
changes that might affect other code (such as a new OC_PythonNumber  
class that bridges python numbers).

Archiving support passes all unittests, but hasn't been used beyond  
that which means there might still be bugs lurking in there.

The code only support keyed archiving for now, although adding support  
for the older coding protocol should be trivial now that the basic  
machinery works.

Ronald