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

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

On Monday, Feb 3, 2003, at 17:16 US/Eastern, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> What about this:
> class UnicodeNSStringWrapper(unicode):
> 	def __new__(clazz, myNSString):
> 		s =  
> unicode.__new__(somethingToConvertNSStringInstanceToPyUnicodeObject(myN 
> SString))
> 		s._objc = myNSString
> 		return s
> 	def __getattr__(self, attr):
> 		try:
> 			return getattr(self._objc, attr)
> 		except:
> 			raise AttributeError, '%r object has no attribute %r' %  
> (self.__class__.__name__, self._objc)
>
> It should do anything that unicode() will do, just like the str  
> subclass I posted a bit ago.. and you don't lose any of the NSString  
> functionality.

Given that I have to write  
somethingToConvertNSStringInstanceToPyUnicodeObject() anyway, I'll do  
so first, plug it into this and see what happens.   (This old had ObjC  
programmer sometimes has to be beaten around the head with the obvious  
elegant path that only Python can offer.)

thanks!
b.bum