[Pyobjc-dev] pyobjc introspection

[Steven D. M. <sd...@mi...>]

There's been a discussion thread on mac...@om... on
how to get all of the methods of a class. ( I'ld like to give
pyobjc classes the same sort of introspection capabilities that
normal python objects have. )

I got some objc code from Pierre Thibault (on that list) that
implements some introspection classes for obj-c. ( It doesn't
seem to get all of the methods from all of the categories -- which
is part of the ongoing discussion in that thread. )

 If he publicly releases that code, I'll make the framework and
my python wrapper code available. In any case, I'ld like to see
some similar functionality built into pyobjc. ( I'm used to using
dir() and __doc__ to figure out how to use python modules -- it
was a bit confusing to find that all pyobjc classes seem to have
the same three attributes: ['Class', 'isClass', 'isInstance'], and
nothing else. ( The runtime checks that the class responds to the
selector you give it, but it can't tell you all of the selectors. )

-- Steve Majewski <sd...@Vi...>