Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Objective-P?

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

On 12 Nov 2009, at 11:59, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> What really annoys me though is that I haven't been able to find a way to get clear integration of Cocoa and Python without changing the Python syntax, and without using manual translation of method names (as was used by the Java-Cocoa bridge).

I've given some thought to that in the past, and of course I know it comes up on the list every couple of months.

I think an important step is maintaing the order of the **kwargs dictionary:

def set(self, **kwargs):
     # construct method name from kwargs
     # extract positional args from kwargs
     objc.dispatch(methodname, args)


foo.set(Value=1, forKey='a')
foo.set(forKey='a', Value=1)

If those calls could be differentiated in the body of 'set', would it not help? Some cases could be ambiguous, but in that case a warning could be emitted and the current convention could be used instead.

Orestis