[Pythonmac-SIG] convert binary plist to xml string

[brad.allen@omsdal.com]

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?

Meanwhile, what's the best day to detect if a plist file is binary? I 
guess I could just wrap the normal plistlib parsing in a try block, catch 
the exception, and try again after converting from binary, but that seems 
kludgy.

Does anybody know why Apple chose to start using binary for plist files? 
This seems mighty inconvenient. Was it for read/write performance? 
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