Re: [Pyobjc-dev] NSRects and NSPoints as tuples...

[Jack J. <Jac...@or...>]

On woensdag, jan 8, 2003, at 22:58 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren 
wrote:

> This is working as designed, but not because tuples are more pythonic 
> than structs (I'm don't even think tuples are more pythonic). They are 
> tuples because PyObjC doesn't know anything about NSRect and other 
> struct-types, other than what it can extract from the runtime. The 
> runtime doesn't know field names, but only the number and types of the 
> fields.
>
> It would be possible to add an interface to specify custom mappings 
> for structure types, but IMHO that is post-1.0 work.

There's a new builtin Python type, structsequence, that is two-faced: 
you can access the members by name or by index. os.stat() is one of the 
calls that uses it.

Unfortunately the C interface is rather baroque. At least, I was going 
to use it for some of the values returned by Mac toolbox calls, but 
I've pushed it forward for the time being as I didn't understand it.
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