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

[Michael H. <mw...@py...>]

Jack Jansen <Jac...@cw...> writes:

> On Tuesday, Jun 10, 2003, at 22:49 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum
> wrote:
>> But I guess I'm getting too far from what Jack is after...
>
> Yes, sort of:-)
>
> Note that the list of things that are easier in Python than ObjC is
> useful by itself, we should at some point have an "introduction to
> PyObjC for ObjC programmers" that could list it, but what I'm after at
> the moment is one feature that (a) requires very little Python code
> and (b) has a large "WOW!" factor.
>
> Something along the lines of "map of" in the address book is what I'm
> thinking of in terms of wow-factor. And it should somehow integrate
> with one of Apple's introductory ObjC examples.

Well, if none of the online currency exchange rate sites let you
scrape the going rate, you could always fake one that returns a random
rate within some range and scrape that.  Not as good as the Real
Thing, but it might do.

Cheers,
M.

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