[Pyobjc-dev] Bridging strings

[Bill B. <bb...@co...>]

Because the bridge converts strings as they go back and forth, there is 
no way to invoke certain methods on NSString.   I.e. I can't (totally 
bogus example, yes, but there are uses for this stuff in other contexts 
-- -drawString:... immediately comes to mind):

[bumbox:~/bbum-developer/sourceforge/pyobjc] bbum% python
Python 2.2 (#1, 07/14/02, 23:25:09)
[GCC Apple cpp-precomp 6.14] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> from Foundation import *
 >>> x = NSString.stringWithString_( "foo bar baz" )
 >>> type(x)
<type 'str'>
 >>> x.componentsSeparatedByString_( " " )
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 
'componentsSeparatedByString_'
 >>> NSString.componentsSeparatedByString_( x, " " )
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: First argument must be an objective-C object, got 'foo bar 
baz'

If we moved to bridging strings in the same fashion as we bridge the 
various arrays and dictionaries, it should be possible to bridge both 
ways in a transparent fashion?

Hmmm....

b.bum
(thinking out loud)