Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Accessing python classes in obj-c

[Jiva D. <ji...@de...>]

Got it.  Thanks for the clarification.

On Dec 8, 2003, at 2:09 PM, b.bum wrote:

> Compile time is a bit harder.   In particular, you can't refer to any 
> class implemented in python directly because there won't be a real 
> class object to link against as the source is compiled.   To solve 
> this problem, I have used an abstract superclass implemented in 
> Objective-C (a class that simply declares all the methods where the 
> implementation is stubbed out) and a concrete subclass implemented in 
> Python.  To the abstract superclass-- the objc class-- I have added a 
> factory method that instantiates and returns the concrete subclass.
>
> This is effectively exactly how class clusters work.
>
> Finally, you have to trigger the execution of a bit of python code 
> from somewhere in your code for all of this to work.   The easiest 
> solution would be to simply grab the main() function that 
> uses/initializes the embedded interpreter and use that within your 
> app.   Then your main.py could import whatever classes you need to 
> start the application and you could go from there.
>
> b.bum
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