Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Re: Making List<->Array bridging transparent

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Saturday, Nov 9, 2002, at 20:13 Europe/Amsterdam, Peter Montagner 
wrote:

>
> On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 04:10 AM, bb...@ma... wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 09:42 AM, Peter Montagner wrote:
>>> How is either method going to solve the splice problem if the splice 
>>> code is trying to access the list directly? Did I understand that 
>>> correctly?
>>
>> Python has been moving to using the types-- string, int, etc..-- as 
>> inheritable classes for some time.   As such, you can do things like:
>>
> [snip]
>>
>> Or something like that... I haven't fully wrapped my head around this 
>> stuff yet.
>
> OK. Maybe I misunderstood. I'm think I'm clear now. So what you're 
> saying is that the splice code will work for any list, although just 
> implementing the methods is not enough?
Just in case someone missed my other messages on this subject:
List slice assignment will work when the source is not a python list 
object if and only if you use a recent snapshot of Python 2.3. In 
Python 2.2 this will not work correctly, even if the object is an 
instance of a subclass of __builtin__.list.

Ronald