[Pyobjc-dev] how do I convert NSDecimalNumber to a native python number type?

[Mark I. <zo...@sb...>]

I have an NSTextField bound to minutes() and setMinutes_() methods  
using Cocoa bindings.  I dropped an NSNumberFormatter on it in  
Inteface Builder.  Now, the values passed into setMinutes_() are of  
type NSDecimalNumber and I can't for the life of me figure out how to  
get them to an int.

I've looked through the PyObjC NEWS file and searched Google.   
NSDecimalNumbers don't have an as_int() method.  Python's built-in int 
() doesn't like them.  It doesn't seem to convert on the fly (I was  
trying to multiply it with int literals).  Surely I'm missing  
something simple, I just don't know what it is.

-Mark Ivey-