[Pyobjc-dev] Pure Python Cocoa GUI application?

[Orestis M. <or...@or...>]

Hello,

For the purposes of testing an application, running it in the same  
process as the tests (ie. as part of a unittest run) is essential.  
However, for Cocoa applications built with PyObjC built with the XCode  
templates I haven't found a way to do this. As far as I can understand  
main.m, all it does is using the Python C API to run main.py. However,  
when I try to run main.py standalone, things fail because there is no  
bundle.

I've tried to do:

app = NSApplication.sharedApplication()
app.setDelegate_(delegate)
app.run()

but things crash soon after. Same if I do AppHelper.runEventLoop().

So my question is: Is there any way from pure python (no main.m, no  
nib) to get something showing on the screen? I know that without a nib  
I won't get a proper dock icon or a menu bar, but this is going to be  
a full screen app and thus these things are not needed. I can cope  
with bundles, but if there could be no bundles that'd be nice as well.

Thanks,
Orestis
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