Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Upgrade to PyObjC 1.0beta

[Chris R. <cp...@em...>]

On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 11:21  AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> On Friday, 8 August, 2003, at 17:10, Bob Swerdlow wrote:
>
>> I finally got around to upgrading my application to use PyObjC 1.0 
>> beta 1
>> from PyObjC 0.9.
>>
>> The upgrade was easy, but I ran into one problem:
>>
>>     appleScript = NSAppleScript.alloc().initWithSource_(strScript)
>>     result = appleScript.executeAndReturnError_(None)
>>
>> produced this error for the second line:
>>
>>     TypeError: Need 0 arguments, got 1
>>
>> This had not happened in PyObjC 0.9.  When I changed it to:
>>
>>     result = appleScript.executeAndReturnError_()
>>
>> the code worked and the error went away.
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand why this is so, as that function is 
>> documented as:
>>    - (NSAppleEventDescriptor *)executeAndReturnError:(NSDictionary
>> **)errorInfo
>
> That's a bug in version 0.9. The 'executeAndReturnError:' method has 
> an output argument, you don't have to supply those when calling 
> methods.

But won't result then be a tuple of the (AE descriptor, error info), 
not just the AE descriptor? (That's probably not what Bob's expecting, 
so I just wanted to clarify for him.)

Cheers!
--Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com