Hi all,

I released some stuff today that should interest you guys. 
plistservices and userdefaults are Python modules. CFPython is a 
library to make working with the Python C API and CoreFoundation easier.

plistservices is like plistlib in that it supports reading and writing 
of property list data, but unlike the version included with Python 2.3 
it supports plists of any time (not just dictionaries). Most 
importantly plistservices includes an ISO 8601 parser to create 
datetime objects, so you don't need to install PyXML to use property 
lists that use dates. However, plistservices requires Python 2.3.

plistservices is very Cocoa-like in its interface; it's intended to be 
used like NSPropertyListSerialization. plistservices includes Date 
(datetime.datetime), Data, and TimeInterval classes to make it easier 
to work with code or data that was intended for Cocoa or PyObjC.

userdefaults is a Python interface to CFPreferences (or 
NSUserDefaults). This lets you read and write your script's preferences 
to the current user's ~/Library/Preferences folder as well as access 
system preferences (such as NSCurrencySymbol or 
com.apple.sound.beep.sound).

CFPython was used to implement userdefaults and is a translator between 
PyObject<=> CFTypeRef. It's more functional than the pycfbridge.c 
included with the Python 2.3 source, however. Currently it only 
supports translation of property list types, as that was all I was 
interested in implementing. It's a very useful library however, as it 
lets you write all your logic using Cocoa or Carbon and then perform 
the data translations as necessary when you need to supply or get data 
from Python.

You can get this stuff from my website at

	http://sarwat.net/opensource/

The stuff's released under a BSD-style license. Use 'bzcat <file>  | pax 
-r' to extract the archives.


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