Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Using Python from ObjC tutorial - Need help

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

On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 00:03 Europe/Amsterdam, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On maandag, jun 16, 2003, at 17:02 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren 
> wrote:
>>> I haven't a clue how to modify an existing ObjC project to allow 
>>> inclusion of Python code, and this isn't documented anywhere. For 
>>> new projects there's the Cocoa-Python-ObjC Application.pbproj 
>>> template which is a start, but this isn't what I want, I want to add 
>>> Python functionality to an existing project. It is a good idea to 
>>> document this anyway, methinks, as it will hopefully also contain 
>>> the knowledge that went into creation of the templates in the first 
>>> >> place.
>>
>> Is the "existing project" something you have the sources for or do 
>> you want to write a plugin?
>
> The former. I want to write a tutorial that lets people start with an 
> existing Apple example (/Developer/Examples/AppKit/SimpleComboBox) and 
> use Python to extend that app in a way that would be more difficult in 
> ObjC.

That's a great idea, and not something we support at the moment. I 
don't think you can do this without building your own copy of python 
because Apple's python doesn't include a (shared) library. To get this 
to work you'll have to add some C code to your ObjC project that will 
initialize the python interpreter, and possibly load a startup 
python-script, before starting the ObjC runloop.

Then look in one of the existing templates to see how they copy python 
files into the app bundle.

Ronald