Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Re: [Pyobjc-checkins] CVS: pyobjc/Modules/objc OC_PythonString.[hm]

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

On Sunday, Feb 16, 2003, at 14:14 US/Eastern, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> I'm in favor of OC_PythonInt.[hm] and OC_PythonString.[hm] that were 
> in before you checked in a new OC_PythonString implementation.

OC_PythonString.[hm] has not been used in a long, long time.

In any case, I'm not attached to the implementation.   I would like to 
avoid the copying simply because strings are passed from Python->ObjC 
*a lot* [in my various PyObjC apps, I often end up with an NSDictionary 
as a backing store for a bunch of data with Python accessing stuff from 
that dictionary on a regular basis -- similarly, I'm frequently passing 
Python strings into various AppKit/Foundation API that require 
strings-- user defaults, notification center, etc...].

I suppose that for small strings it is largely irrelevant.

Whatever -- the only thing I feel strongly about is that the Python -> 
ObjC string conversion code that is currently stuck in objc_support.m 
should move to OC_PythonString and be invoked in a similar fashion as 
the rest of the code in that long if/else if/else if/else if block 
instead of the current chunk of code that is there.

b.bum