Apple and PyObjC · Friday, March 18, 2005

Apple has posted descriptions of the sessions for WWDC 2005, their annual developers conference to be held June 6-10. One of the sessions caught my eye:

Python on Mac OS X—PyObjC is a bridge between Python and Objective-C. It allows you to write Python scripts that use and extend existing Objective-C class libraries, and most importantly, Cocoa libraries. Specific topics from the 1.2 release covered in this session are: py2app, macho_standalone, NSBundle features, KVO/KVC support, the new scanframework script, objc.inject(), and runtime editing.

Is Apple finally taking notice of the power of Python? I used the PyObjC bridge in the development of NPR Cast, and it is an absolute pleasure to use. Cocoa is probably the most well designed class libraries I have ever been exposed to, and using it from Python makes developing software so much fun.

Here is hoping that Apple officially starts to support Python in XCode soon!