Release History

0.3.0

  • Added Pythonic operators and methods on NSString objects, similar to those for NSArray and NSDictionary. * Only a small subset of the standard str methods is supported at the moment. Additional str methods may be implemented in the future, but some methods (like format) will never be supported, as they cannot be implemented efficiently based on NSString.

  • Removed automatic conversion of NSString objects to str when returned from Objective-C methods. This feature made it difficult to call Objective-C methods on NSString objects, because there was no easy way to prevent the automatic conversion. * In most cases, this change will not affect existing code, because NSString objects now support operations similar to str. * If an actual str object is required, the NSString object can be wrapped in a str call to convert it.

  • Added support for objc_property with non-object types.

  • Added public get_ivar and set_ivar functions for manipulating ivars.

  • Changed the implementation of objc_property to use ivars instead of Python attributes for storage. This fixes name conflicts in some situations.

  • Fixed objc_property setters on non-macOS platforms. (cculianu)

  • Fixed various bugs in the collection ObjCInstance subclasses: * Fixed getting/setting/deleting items or slices with indices lower than -len(obj). Previously this crashed Python, now an IndexError is raised. * Fixed slices with step size 0. Previously they were ignored and 1 was incorrectly used as the step size, now an IndexError is raised. * Fixed equality checks between Objective-C arrays/dictionaries and non-sequence/mapping objects. Previously this incorrectly raised a TypeError, now it returns False. * Fixed equality checks between Objective-C arrays and sequences of different lengths. Previously this incorrectly returned True if the shorter sequence was a prefix of the longer one, now False is returned. * Fixed calling popitem on an empty Objective-C dictionary. Previously this crashed Python, now a KeyError is raised. * Fixed calling update with both a mapping and keyword arguments on an Objective-C dictionary. Previously the kwargs were incorrectly ignored if a mapping was given, now both are respected.

  • Fixed calling methods using kwarg syntax if a superclass and subclass define methods with the same prefix, but different names. For example, if a superclass had a method initWithFoo:bar: and the subclass initWithFoo:spam:, the former could not be called on instances of the subclass.

0.2.10

  • Rewrote almost all Core Foundation-based functions to use Foundation instead. * The functions from_value and NSDecimalNumber.from_decimal have been removed and replaced by ns_from_py. * The function at is now an alias for ns_from_py. * The function is_str has been removed. is_str(obj) calls should be replaced with isinstance(obj, NSString). * The functions to_list, to_number, to_set, to_str, and to_value have been removed and replaced by py_from_ns.

  • Fixed declare_property not applying to subclasses of the class it was called on.

  • Fixed repr of ObjCBoundMethod when the wrapped method is not an ObjCMethod.

  • Fixed the encodings of NSPoint, NSSize, and NSRect on 32-bit systems.

  • Renamed the async support package to eventloop to avoid a Python 3.5+ keyword clash.

0.2.9

  • Improved handling of boolean types.

  • Added support for using primitives as object values (e.g, as the key/value in an NSDictonary).

  • Added support for passing Python lists as Objective-C NSArray arguments, and Python dicts as Objective-C NSDictionary arguments.

  • Corrected support to storing strings and other objects as properties on Python-defined Objective-C classes.

  • Added support for creating Objective-C blocks from Python callables. (ojii)

  • Added support for returning compound values (structures and unions) from Objective-C methods defined in Python.

  • Added support for creating, extending and conforming to Objective-C protocols.

  • Added an objc_const convenience function to look up global Objective-C object constants in a DLL.

  • Added support for registering custom ObjCInstance subclasses to be used to represent Objective-C objects of specific classes.

  • Added support for integrating NSApplication and UIApplication event loops with Python’s asyncio event loop.

0.2.8

  • Added support for using native Python sequence/mapping syntax with NSArray and NSDictionary. (jeamland)

  • Added support for calling Objective-C blocks in Python. (ojii)

  • Added functions for declaring custom conversions between Objective-C type encodings and ctypes types.

  • Added functions for splitting and decoding Objective-C method signature encodings.

  • Added automatic conversion of Python sequences to C arrays or structures in method arguments.

  • Extended the Objective-C type encoding decoder to support block types, bit fields (in structures), typed object pointers, and arbitrary qualifiers. If unknown pointer, array, struct or union types are encountered, they are created and registered on the fly.

  • Changed the PyObjectEncoding to match the real definition of PyObject *.

  • Fixed the declaration of unichar (was previously c_wchar, is now c_ushort).

  • Removed the get_selector function. Use the SEL constructor instead.

  • Removed some runtime function declarations that are deprecated or unlikely to be useful.

  • Removed the encoding constants. Use encoding_for_ctype to get the encoding of a type.

0.2.7

  • (#40) Added the ability to explicitly declare no-attribute methods as properties. This is to enable a workaround when Apple introduces readonly properties as a way to access these methods.

0.2.6

  • Added a more compact syntax for calling Objective-C methods, using Python keyword arguments. (The old syntax is still fully supported and will not be removed; certain method names even require the old syntax.)

  • Added a superclass property to ObjCClass.

0.2.5

  • Added official support for Python 3.6.

  • Added keyword arguments to disable argument and/or return value conversion when calling an Objective-C method.

  • Added support for (NS/UI) EdgeInsets structs. (Longhanks)

  • Improved str of Objective-C classes and objects to return the debugDescription, or for NSStrings, the string value.

  • Changed ObjCClass to extend ObjCInstance (in addition to type), and added an ObjCMetaClass class to represent metaclasses.

  • Fixed some issues on non-x86_64 architectures (i386, ARM32, ARM64).

  • Fixed example code in README. (Dayof)

  • Removed the last of the Python 2 compatibility code.

0.2.4

  • Added objc_property function for adding properties to custom Objective-C subclasses. (Longhanks)

0.2.3

  • Removed most Python 2 compatibility code.

0.2.2

  • Dropped support for Python 3.3.

  • Added conversion of Python enum.Enum objects to their underlying values when passed to an Objective-C method.

  • Added syntax highlighting to example code in README. (stsievert)

  • Fixed the setup.py shebang line. (uranusjr)

0.2.1

  • Fixed setting of ObjCClass/ObjCInstance attributes that are not Objective-C properties.

0.2.0

  • First beta release.

  • Dropped support for Python 2. Python 3 is now required, the minimum tested version is Python 3.3.

  • Added error detection when attempting to create an Objective-C class with a name that is already in use.

  • Added automatic conversion between Python decimal.Decimal and Objective-C NSDecimal in method arguments and return values.

  • Added PyPy to the list of test platforms.

  • When subclassing Objective-C classes, the return and argument types of methods are now specified using Python type annotation syntax and ctypes types.

  • Improved property support.

0.1.3

  • Fixed some issues on ARM64 (iOS 64-bit).

0.1.2

  • Fixed NSString conversion in a few situations.

  • Fixed some issues on iOS and 32-bit platforms.

0.1.1

  • Objective-C classes can now be subclassed using Python class syntax, by using an ObjCClass as the superclass.

  • Removed ObjCSubclass, which is made obsolete by the new subclassing syntax.

0.1.0

  • Initial alpha release.

  • Objective-C classes and instances can be accessed via ObjCClass and ObjCInstance.

  • Methods can be called on classes and instances with Python method call syntax.

  • Properties can be read and written with Python attribute syntax.

  • Method return and argument types are read automatically from the method type encoding.

  • A small number of commonly used structs are supported as return and argument types.

  • Python strings are automatically converted to and from NSString when passed to or returned from a method.

  • Subclasses of Objective-C classes can be created with ObjCSubclass.