Re: [Pyobjc-dev] FYI: Open Source Scripting Layer For Cocoa

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

On zondag, jun 8, 2003, at 16:53 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren 
wrote:
>> A second advantage is that it should be easy to incorporate in your 
>> ObjC program, according to their website.
>
> Python is not too hard to integrate into your ObjC programs. If you 
> add some ObjC-sauce integrating Python would be as easy as integrating 
> F-script.

I know that it's not too hard, but what I think we really need is "dead 
easy". What I'd prefer is a useful bit of functionality, such as the 
recently mentioned class browser (which, incidentally, I missed??!? I 
only saw the followups to Just's original message) or an object 
browser, packaged in such a way that an ObjC programmer with no Python 
knowledge can easily plug it in his/her existing program.

Alternatively, we should provide an example, probably in tutorial 
style. Hmm, idea: how about taking the currency converter ObjC tutorial 
as a start, and in the tutorial we add Python code to lookup actual 
exchange rates at oanda or x-rates or one of such sites, generating the 
right query and parsing the resulting HTML?
Hmm, too bad: all top currency converters I looked at explicitly forbid 
this in the policy statements:-(

Any other ideas for something that is much simpler in Python than in 
ObjC?
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