[python] Boo

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 6, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Andrew Yochum wrote:

>
> On Apr 6, 2005, at 8:26 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> PyObjC is a runtime bridge that works extremely well between CPython 
>> and the Objective-C runtime.. they're a lot more similar to each 
>> other than CPython and the CLR are, but it's not messy (from a user's 
>> perspective.. the implementation, of course, can't be that elegant)
>
> Yeah, it was more the implementation that I had in mind.  From reading 
> a short bit about PythonNET I learned that it is only one way.  You 
> can only write python code to script the CLR, but no CLR code can call 
> the CPython runtime... yet.  It seems PyObjC has achieved that 
> already, though.  Thats certainly an appealing method of writing Cocoa 
> apps!

PyObjC is *FAR* more mature (Version 0.1, 13 September 1996) than 
PythonNET.  There was, of course, a time when it had similar 
limitations.

The problems PythonNET has aren't intractable, just non-trivial.

-bob