Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Another naive question

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On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 06:39 PM, Just van Rossum wrote:
> What is the real difference between:
>
>>>> from AppKit import NSApplication
>
> and
>
>>>> from objc import *
>>>> NSApplication = lookup_class("NSApplication")
>
> ? (I noticed they're one and the same object.)

The second gives access to the class directly without doing any of the 
other convenience style stuff found in the AppKit module (informal 
protocol declarations, etc.).   Unfortunately, from AppKit import 
NSApplication causes the AppKit module to effectively visit every class 
in the runtime as a part of initialization -- and this is quite 
expensive.

b.bum