Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Re: FYI: Open Source Scripting Layer For Cocoa

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 10:51 Europe/Amsterdam, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 01:21 Europe/Amsterdam, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>>>>> Well, if none of the online currency exchange rate sites let you
>>>>> scrape the going rate, you could always fake one that returns a 
>>>>> random
>>>>> rate within some range and scrape that.  Not as good as the Real
>>>>> Thing, but it might do.
>>>>
>>>> See the demo services at.....
>>>>
>>>>     http://xmethods.com/
>>>>
>>>> .... as any of them could easily be wrapped by a Cocoa/Python app.
>>>
>>> Ah, brilliant! There's a currency converter in there.
>>>
>>> Now the problem has been replaced by a new one: does anyone here 
>>> know how to talk to a soap service from Python, and do we have all 
>>> the necessary tools available in a standard Python installation?
>>
>> Python does not come with any SOAP stuff.  However, Twisted also does 
>> SOAP and there's also a couple blocking implementations at: 
>> http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/
>
> Ok, that's nice for a more involved example, but not for "embedding 
> Python in ObjC 101". Too ba, I'll try and come up with something 
> else:-)

There is an XML-RPC library in 2.2 and 2.3, xmlrpc.org lists a number 
of public services (from a currentTime function at Userland to Meercat 
at O'Reilly).

Ronald