[Pythonmac-SIG] How to find correct Carbon module(s)?

[Jack Jansen]

On 25 Feb 2004, at 10:46, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> I almost have a solution to this problem, but I need a bit of help 
>> for the last bit.
>>
>> If I create a module Carbon.Carbon that imports all APIs from the 
>> Carbon modules We're half way there:
>> 	>>> Carbon.Carbon.Window
>> 	<type '_Win.Window'>
>> 	>>> Carbon.Carbon.NewWindow
>> 	<built-in function NewWindow>
>> 	>>> Carbon.Carbon.NewWindow.__module__
>> 	'_Win'
>> The '_Win' bits aren't optimal, but that can probably be fixed into 
>> Carbon.Win somehow.
>>
>> The bit I don't know how to do is the methods of the various objects. 
>> They print the right thing when you repr() them:
>> 	>>> Carbon.Carbon.Window.ChangeWindowAttributes
>> 	<method 'ChangeWindowAttributes' of '_Win.Window' objects>
>> but you really want to refer to it as 
>> "Carbon.Carbon.ChangeWindowAttributes".
>>
>> Does anyone have a suggestion for a way to loop over all the objects 
>> in your namespace, check each object for being a class or type, for 
>> each matching one that isn't a duplicate find all the methods and put 
>> them in your namespace too?
>
> The trick I used in PyObjC is to hardcode the name of the module that 
> will export an entity to the user in the extension module. The _objc 
> extension defines a type 'informal_protocol', the user will never use 
> _objc but will always import 'objc'. The tp_name of 
> 'informal_protocol' therefore is 'objc.informal_protocol'. This 
> correctly sets the __module__ attribute.

If I'm not mistaken that's the answer to the first question (The '_Win' 
bits aren't optimal, but that can probably be fixed into Carbon.Win 
somehow), but the real problem is the second one: how do I find all the 
methods of all the objects, and put them in my namespace?
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