On May 14, 2005, at 12:44 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On May 13, 2005, at 7:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Thanks, Florian, for the instructions on how to convert the new >> binary plist files into something parseable. >> >> I'm wondering if it's going to be possible to bundle this sort of >> functionality into plistlib. Since PyObjC is needed, I guess the >> normal plistlib won't be able to do it. Maybe a special version of >> plistlib could be bundled with PyObjC, just to handle this? >> > > I'd rather not see plistlib change. It does the XML stuff properly, > doing anything else doesn't really belong in the standard library. I > would rather see plistlib move from plat-mac to the standard > distribution than have it bring on optional PyObjC dependencies that > work sometimes and not others. This is like when it used to have > pyxml dependencies (that weren't implemented properly in the first > place). > > I'll go ahead and add some stuff to PyObjCTools.Conversion before > 1.3.5 to read and write plists from data and files, but it's not very > hard to do this with just raw PyObjC. > > thePlist = NSDictionary.dictionaryWithContentsOfFile_(somePath) > > someDict.writeToFile_atomically_(somePath, True) > > There are already functions in PyObjCTools.Conversion to convert > python data structures to/from the Objective-C counterparts (though > as long as the outer thing is a NSDictionary, the write will still > work, because all the property lists types are bridged).
I've added this functionality to PyObjCTools.Conversion, in svn r1644. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
