On Jan 24, 2005, at 2:52 PM, has wrote:
Bob wrote:
It's a question of marketing really: what type(s) of audience do you wish to promote Python to, and what needs to be done to guarantee each's capture?
From the public documentation, you would trivially construct an Action in PyObjC with the following boilerplate:
# MyAction.py from Foundation import * class MyAction(NSObject): def runWithInput_fromAction_error_(self, theInput, anAction): if somethingBadHappens: result = None error = someNSError else: result = [some output] error = None return result, error
Is that so overwhelming?
For you, not in the slightest. For me, well I've been doing this Python thing a year now so think I can probably cope. So that's the professional and hack markets covered.
That is the raw boilerplate for using the documented interface as-is. You could of course wrap that six ways to sunday if you wanted it to catch exceptions and throw an error automatically, or whatever.
I didn't present such a cleaned up interface because there isn't enough public information available to present an Automator interface that makes sense in that regard. This is simply a good approximation of what the boilerplate will look like that *directly* interfaces with the documented Objective-C interface for Actions. This means no middle-man whatsoever beyond the runtime bridge, no code written by anyone else, nothing but PyObjC 1.2 installed.
Now, what about the newbies, the new blood? The folks who are complete newcomers to Python and/or to programming in general? Try to see it from their point of view:
Personally, I'd rather not be bothered catering to that class of users. I'm more interested in making the things work correctly for the people who DO know what they're doing. There are lots of people with more interest in making possible things easier, such as yourself, but I'm more inclined to expand what is possible in the first place (in my spare time anyway)... with occasional bouts of cleaning things up and hand-holding (writing documentation, speaking at PyCon, doing a tutorial now and then, answering the mailing lists, setting up websites, releasing software, etc.).
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