[Pyobjc-dev] Re: [ pyobjc-Bugs-679748 ] NSMutableString gets converted to Python string

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

On Monday, Feb 3, 2003, at 15:26 US/Eastern, SourceForge.net wrote:
>> Comment By: Just van Rossum (jvr)
> Date: 2003-02-03 21:26
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> How's this: let's _not_ convert any NS{Mutable}String as an 
> experiment, and see what it breaks in the Examples area and in our own 
> respective code bases code. We can always go back and do it 
> differently.

This is my next Train Hack(tm) for the ride home this evening.  I'm 
going to implement two things:

- an OC_NSString subclass of NSString that can encapsulate a python 
string an an NSString compatible fashion

- a python object that provides a character buffer style interface to 
the contents of an NSString.

The former *should* be easy.  The latter will be difficult, but I have 
experience with the character buffer APIs from doing the 
NSData/NSBitmapImageRep API support.

Thank GOODNESS for unit tests.   It is going to be *really* easy to get 
a feel for what breaks.

If anyone has a test rolling around your head that you'd think would be 
a good thing to support/do, please whip off a test.  Just copy one of 
the test cases that are already in Lib/Foundation/test [has more tests 
than the other two modules] and modify it for your needs.   I don't 
really care if the test passes or fails-- but, if it fails, make sure 
it fails because it is demonstrating something you *want* to work.

b.bum