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

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

On Sunday, Jun 8, 2003, at 18:39 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> Jack Jansen wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Can we reach ivars from objects who's class is not defined in Python,
> from Python?

We could somewhere between 0.6 and 0.7, but then I noticed that 
instance variables often have the same name as the getter method for 
that variable. All machinery is still there, it would not be too hard 
to add 'obj.pyobjc_instanceVariables' as special notation to allow 
access to instance variables (just like we do for methods).

I'm going to dust off my code for writing a Python based plugin bundle, 
that should make it possible to inspect any Cocoa program that supports 
plugins :-)

Ronald