On Mar 26, 2005, at 11:33 PM, Sarwat Khan wrote:
Since we fixed the bugs in plistlib w.r.t. date/time stuff before the release of Python 2.4, is there any particularly good reason to use plistservices instead of the updated plistlib?
Well, there is the fact that you have to go to http://sarwat.net/ opensource/ to get it. Is that a good reason? :)
Unfortunately most people would rather pick something up from the standard library if it works :)
The most useful part is the classes it contains and the programming interface that mimics Cocoa. When I'm using plists I often want to manipulate dates the same way I do in Cocoa/CF (datetime et al can be annoying). plistservices has the following classes with the following methods,
class Data: dataWithContentsOfFile dataWithOpenFile dataWithString
Which are inconsistent with PyObjC, because the number of arguments does not equal the number of underscores!
So now there are three ways to do it:
1) Use plistlib, which comes with Python anyway, and has a pythonic API (at the expense of having to download it if you're not on a Mac)
2) Use PyObjC, and get the real APIs (at the expense of losing cross- plat support and requiring an extension, but guaranteed compatibility and speed)
3) Use plistservices, and get something that is similar to the real APIs, but mapped in a somewhat ambiguous way, that is different from the PyObjC mapping.
-bob
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