[Pythonmac-SIG] convert binary plist to xml string
Bob Ippolito
bob at redivi.com
Sat May 14 06:57:23 CEST 2005
On May 13, 2005, at 11:19 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
> The binary plist format is also documented on the Web in
> http://cvs.opendarwin.org/index.cgi/~checkout~/src/CoreFoundation/
> Parsing.subproj/CFBinaryPList.c?rev=1.1.1.3&content-type=text/plain
> so a parser could be written for it in pure Python.
Yeah, the NeXT style plists could be done too. But the question is,
why bother? PyObjC does it correctly and quickly :)
That code wouldn't be very fun to write in Python. The struct module
sucks.
-bob
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