Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Python as an AppleScript Replacement?

[Jack J. <Jac...@or...>]

On zondag, maa 2, 2003, at 17:55 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren 
wrote:
>> Sounds like it does 90% of what I meant. IMHO, it would be more 
>> elegant to do it all on the fly with a call like 
>> osa.getApp("Finder"). After all, PyObjC doesn't generate a whole set 
>> of python modules to implement Cocoa, it does it all dynamically.
>>
>> I'm just throwing this out as a suggestion BTW. I probably won't have 
>> the time to actually implement it. I might take a bash at it though. 
>> Thanks for your help.
>
> If you want to help out with this I'd suggest asking around on the 
> macpython list, the subscribers there are more likely to know about 
> using OSA from Python. I'd say a function like the getApp you propose 
> would be a usefull addition, but that's from someone that hasn't used 
> OSA before.

It's been on my todo list for ages, but I think I would implement it by 
running gensuitemodule on the fly and caching the results.

Gensuitemodule is old (more than 7 years) and on the hardware of those 
days Python wasn't up to parsing thee aete/aeut's on the fly. And it's 
very tricky code, due to OSA's intricate (and largely undocumented) 
inheritance rules. I'm happy it works, I don't really want to break it.

But, of course, if someone else wants to give this a go: be my guest!
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