Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Looking for python classes that could use a custom proxy class

[Barry W. <bar...@gm...>]

+1 for both set/frozenset and datetime.datetime!

barry

On Jan 1, 2008 4:12 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ron...@ma...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently search for more Python classes that could use custom
> PyObjC proxies, just like python's "dict" is proxied as
> "OC_PythonDictionary".
>
> The ones I know of right now are:
>
> - set, frozenset:     proxy using subclass of NS(Mutable)Set
> - datetime.datetime, ...: proxy using subclass of NSDate
>
> There's bound to be more of those, but I haven't looked very carefully
> yet. The advantage of custom proxies is
> cleaner integration of pure python types in Cocoa code, and hence less
> need to "contaminate" code with unnecessary Cocoa dependencies. As an
> example, the datetime.datetime proxy would allow you to dump the
> output of an SQL query in an NSTable column with a date-formatter
> without manual conversions.
>
> Ronald
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