[Pyobjc-dev] Explicit conversion from ObjC to PyObject?

[Greg A. <ga...@ap...>]

Hi,

Is it feasible to mix the "old-fashioned" Python C API with PyObjC?  
Specifically, I'm exposing some C++ classes to Python using  
PyType_Ready and all of that, but some of those methods are actually  
Objective-C++ code and return Objective C instances such as NSColor. I  
could manually wrap them too, but that seems wasteful considering all  
the excellent work that's gone into creating PyObjC. Is there a way to  
explicitly ask PyObjC to wrap an Objective C object and turn it into a  
PyObject* proxy that I can return to the Python interpreter?

All the PyObjC examples that I've found so far assume that you're not  
using any other low-level interface, and so everything is magically  
wrapped & unwrapped whenever it crosses the Python<->ObjC boundary.  
But what if I want to participate in that boundary manually? Is there  
a "PyObject * convertObjCToPython(id)" function that I can call? (Or  
convertPythonToObjC, for that matter?)

Thanks very much in advance for any insights.

-greg abbas.