Possible to write a Unicode*like* object?

[Michael Hudson]

Just <just at xs4all.nl> writes:

> In the PyObjC project (a bridge between Python and Objective-C, and/or 
> Cocoa really, OSX's GUI stuff) there's currently a discussion about 
> whether to _convert_ NSString instances (the Cocoa string class) to 
> Python (unicode) strings or to wrap the original instance that would 
> make it string-like. For 8-bit strings wrapping is probably not a big 
> deal, the buffer interface makes this work quite transparently, but I 
> have no clue whether this is possible for unicode strings as well. Any 
> ideas?

I think you can return unicode data through the buffer interface too,
can't you?  In any case, I'm a bit unsure what exactly you're asking.

Cheers,
M.

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