Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] pyobjc / cocoa

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

On Thursday, Oct 17, 2002, at 12:24 America/New_York, Bill Bumgarner 
wrote:

>
> Convenience wrappers are in the works.  Instead of wrapping, we are 
> thinking of simply providing a subclass of NSDictionary and NSArray 
> that can encapsulate DictType and Array/TupleTypes respectively.   
> That way, Python arrays and dicts will behave like normal NSArray / 
> NSDictionary instances on the ObjC side of the bridge.   (The other 
> direction has already been bridged).
>

IMHO there should also be easy to use wrappers for NSNumber and 
NSData.. I use those on a pretty regular basis for stuff that needs to 
get serialized for DO or plists.  Another extremely convenient idea 
would be to just make special cases for some of the most used 
Foundation classes such as NS[Mutable]Array, NS[Mutable]Dictionary and 
NSEnumerator so that you can treat them like native python objects.  
Possibly even NS[Mutable]String and so on.  Probably wouldn't even take 
too long to develop, especially if it's done (at least at first) from 
the python end of the stick and not in ObjC.

Does pyobjc do garbage collection?  I'd imagine that you could have the 
__init__ for anything to a retain and the __del__ for anything do a 
release without getting in the way..

-bob