Re: [Pyobjc-dev] NSApplicationMain idiom: wish to standardize

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Saturday, Mar 22, 2003, at 19:36 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
>> That doesn't mean I'm not interested in speeding up PyObjC. I'm not
>> much into import hacks, so how would one cause the creation of a
>> custom module-like object when doing 'import AppKit'? Does this
>> entrail creating an importhook, or is replacing sys.modules['AppKit']
>> from inside AppKit/__init__.py sufficient?
>
> The latter is sufficient. Supporting __getattr__ and having an __all__
> attribute is all that's needed, if I recall correctly. For a package
> directory it should have a __path__ attribute.

Interesting, that's pretty easy. I'm going to experiment with this. I'm 
going to target two things:
1. Speedier initialisation
2. Make the NSApp global variable available as a variable instead of a 
function

I foresee one problem: Dynamicly adding the class names in AppKit to 
the __all__ list of the AppKit module/package. The only method I can 
come up with right now is about as expensive as the current code, which 
is not very usefull. We could depricate 'from AppKit import *', but 
that doesn't make me much happier. The other alternative is staticly 
filling __all__ (possibly based on the OS version).

Ronald