[Pythonmac-SIG] hi, everybody!

[Michael Hudson]

Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> I guess I should gain some passing acquaintance with Objective C for
> the purpose...? 

I think you can get by on very little.  You need to know enough to
read Apple's docs, but that's not very much.

I mean, it's just C with a bit of smalltalk wedged into it, right? :-)

> Could you suggest some URL and/or book for the purpose?  Or shd I
> just dive right into the "runtime bridge" without needing any
> understanding of the language on one side of it...?

My advice would be:

1) Do Apple's tutorial in Obj-C.

2) Do the first two(?) PyObjC tutorials (one of which is the same as
   Apple's but in Python).

3) Dive in!

Cheers,
mwh

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