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

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

> What about this:
> class UnicodeNSStringWrapper(unicode):
>   def __new__(clazz, myNSString):
>       s =  
>
unicode.__new__(somethingToConvertNSStringInstanceToPyUnicodeObject(myNS 
> String))
>       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.

This seems the worst of both worlds, performance wise: allocate new
storage *and* keep the old object? Hm...

Just