Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Auto bridging instances by conversion

[David E. <epp...@ic...>]

On 2/4/03 8:03 AM +0100 Ronald Oussoren <ous...@ci...> wrote:
> Be warned that some (many?) C functions assume that if an object is an
> instance of PyString_Type (either directly or an instance of a subclass
> of str) they can use PyString_AS_STRING on it. The same thing is true for
> most other buildin types. This means the NS* types can never be a full
> substitute for native python types (which is really too bad).

What about the new Python 2.3 basestring type?  Would inheriting from that 
convince callers that it's a string without letting them think they can use 
low-level string representation details?  Of course, it would be bad if 
pyobjc required 2.3...
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
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