Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> Is there a good book out there on programming
python on mac ?
>
> No. There are a number of good books on Python
programming in
> general and those should get you going on the Python
side. For the
> most part Python on the mac is just like Python on
other unixy
> platforms.
Also various online tutorials, if the OP's completely new to
Python.
Easy enough to find.
> I know of no books that deal with mac-specific issues
(like
> applescript and Cocoa) from the Python perspective, but
that
> shouldn't be a problem unless you want to use
mac-specific
> technologies. W.r.t. applescript: appscript is very
useful and has
> good documentation.
Yep, appscript is quite straightforward to use once you
appreciate
how it works. (It's basically a hybrid RPC+query-based
system, not an
object-oriented connected a-la COM or CORBA, and any syntax
on top of
that is just sugar to sweeten the taste.) The hard bit is
dealing
with the various bugs, quirks and inadequate documentation
of the
applications you want to script, but that's not something
specific to
appscript. Dealing with this tends to be a bit
hand-to-mouth,
involving a fair degree of intelligent guesswork,
trial-and-error
testing, studying existing scripts and generally looking and
asking
around for help. However, there's various folks here and in
the
AppleScript community who can provide advice on specific
problems
(and several mailing list and BBS archives you can search
for past
discussions) so don't be afraid to ask.
> W.r.t. Cocoa: PyObjC does not have extensive
documentation, but it
> should be easy enough learn just enough Objective-C to
learn about
> Cocoa from the myriad of Objective-C Cocoa books.
FWIW, this is how I did it: one copy of PyObjC (for obvious
reasons),
one copy of AppKiDo (for quickly looking up Cocoa API
documentation),
one copy of Hillegass (to grok the basic concepts behind
Cocoa
programming), one Google bookmark (for everything else), and
just
dived in and began writing code till it started to all make
sense.
The example code included with PyObjC is really handy for
picking
through and pulling apart to help understand the general
principles
and as a source of example solutions to various common
design
requirements. And again, there are plenty of folks here and
in the
wider Cocoa community (e.g. I also subscribe to Omni's
MacOSX-dev and
Apple's Cocoa-dev mailing lists) who you can ask for advice
when you
need it.
HTH
has
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