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

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

On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 07:20 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren 
wrote:
>>> 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.

Actually: no, I plan to cop out here. I'm just going to replace the 
existing skeleton main.m program with its Python equivalent. But now 
that I think of it: if I'm going to do this I might as well start with 
a fresh project from the PyObjC templates and tell the user to copy the 
existing stuff from the old project into it.

But: in the long run doing semi-automatic support for including Python 
into existing ObjC projects should be done too. For 2.2 there's the 
problem that there's no shared library, but not for 2.3 (and I would be 
surprised if Apple doesn't fix this problem for OSX 10.3, too). We 
would need a bit of boilerplate ObjC code that you call and that will 
initialize the interpreter and adds your Resources directory to 
sys.path. I think that's all that is needed.
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