[Pythonmac-SIG] CFURL Pain

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 28, 2005, at 3:41 PM, has wrote:

> Bob wrote:
>
>>> I'm not really up on these APIs nor their Python wrappers, but I 
>>> suspect this stuff is broke:
>>> [...]
>>> Anyone want to confirm/correct me? (OS10.2.8, MacPython 2.3.3)
>>
>> I wouldn't be surprised if it's broken,
>
> Mmmm... encouraging.
>
> (Hey: if bgen is so great, why won't it generate some damn test suites 
> to prove it?;p)

Well I can verify that there definitely are serious problems with CFURL 
after screwing around with it a bit.  I don't have time to chase bugs, 
though.

>> use PyObjC and NSURL instead, those work.
>
> Introduces a big fat third-party dependency though, something I'm 
> trying to avoid here.

Too bad :)  If you're writing Mac OS X specific code you **really** 
should have PyObjC anyway.

-bob