Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Confused on syntax

[Deirdre S. M. <de...@de...>]

>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.


Yeah, figured that out from your prior email. Rats. So much for cheap 
and easy. :)

>  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.

It seems to me that somehow it could be done if one really compiled 
python with ObjC (this is intuition) and tweaked the process of 
building a bit. Failing that, the generic wrapper sounds like a good 
approach.


>  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.


Please -- it's a dull afternoon. :)


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