Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Confused on syntax

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

[ I know our mails have crossed, and I addressed some of this
  in the earlier, longer message, but to distill the problems
  down more concisely: ]


> class ConverterController(pyobjc.runtime.NSObject):

[1]
That won't work for the same reason you can't directly
subclass Python lists or dictionaries. They are objects,
but not classes. Look in you're Python lib for UserDict.py
and UserList.py -- which are examples of class wrappers
around a non-class object. You would need to do something
similar for Cocoa classes -- which are not Python classes.

 We're going to look for a general solution to this problem:
Jim Fulton and Don Beaudry both (I think) did some work on
"extension classes" and other ways around this problem in
Python -- and I think Python is moving towards a more
general solution eventually.
 We might try fixing it without waiting for Python 2.X to
fix the problem (looking at those previous attempts).
 We might be able to add more introspection to the bridge
to make it easier to automatically generate, or make a
generic one-size-fits-all class wrapper.


[2]
 I haven't yet been able to load and reanimate an IB Nib file
from Python. I think this is a much easier problem than [1]
above. I'll try to post what I've tried and what didn't work
in case anyone else wants to give it a try.

-- Steve Majewski