@shinyformica Correct - these string constants are actually global variables of type NSString *, which means that they contain a pointer to the actual string object.

To read the pointer from the global variable, you need to use ctypes.c_void_p.in_dll(objc_util.c, "ConstantName"), as @mikael already found above. objc_util.c.ConstantName will "work" (it doesn't crash), but that treats ConstantName as a function and not a variable, so it returns a function pointer (which will crash when you try to call it, because normal variables are not valid functions).

The value returned by in_dll is a regular Objective-C object pointer (which points to the NSString object), but as a c_void_p object, so you need to cast it to ObjCInstance manually so that you can use it. Once you do that, you have a regular NSString object with the value you're looking for.

In short:

>>> objc_util.ObjCInstance(ctypes.c_void_p.in_dll(objc_util.c, 'UICollectionElementKindSectionHeader')) <b'__NSCFConstantString': UICollectionElementKindSectionHeader> >>> objc_util.ObjCInstance(ctypes.c_void_p.in_dll(objc_util.c, 'UICollectionElementKindSectionFooter')) <b'__NSCFConstantString': UICollectionElementKindSectionFooter>

Strangely, the value of both string constants is literally their name, so the approach suggested by @mikael (just pass the name of the constant as a string) should have worked. Maybe UIKit expects you to pass in the exact pointer, and not just any string with the same contents? (That would be quite strange though.)

(By the way, please do @-mention me if there's something where you think I can help. Sometimes I only skim the forums very quickly, so I might miss some questions by accident.)

I use both Carnets and Pyto, and love both of them.
But I am not an advanced user so they help me learn Jupiter Notebooks (Carnets)
And both can run Pandas, which is superb.
Pyto is updated regularly and runs 3.8 version of Python

Thank you so much for your help ... now I have managed to move on

To build credibility so that when they do put up a post that has a link, folks will click on it. To leave a post that they can later Edit to add a link.

@ccc, I don't want to come off as rude, but the question was a legitimate one and your reply states the obvious. Do you work in some means on this product to give a more specific answer than "it will be released when it's ready to be released? I would certainly hope it will not be released if it's not ready so this begs the question:
When will Pythonista 3.3 be ready? Please don't answer "it will be ready when it's ready" lol.

That is... crazy!

I realise that we as a society are held back and punished as a whole for the indiscretions of a few, but a generic text field being made unavailable because some people use it to store sensitive data? Next thing you know, we’ll be driving slower because some people have accidents or more medications will become illegal or prescription only because some people abuse them...

next thing you’ll know, we won’t be able to use the reminders created in older iOS versions because of “data security” or some other BS made up thing.

/rant over :)

It was! It was the actual name of the constant, which is just nuts.

@lyubomyr83, undo is available on both iPad and iPhone, but on iPhone it is a bit hidden - long press the rightmost button on the additional keys above the keyboard.

For github support, Working Copy app works well with Pythonista.

https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/blob/master/api_core/setup.py#L42 leads us to https://github.com/grpc/grpc which is largely a C codebase so https://pypi.org/project/grpcio will be a problem.

That’s perfectly workable. Thanks very much!

Pyui's are just json files, so you can also just [change file extension from .pyui -> .json] edit them directly [and then change the extension from .json -> .pyui].

Thanks @cvp
Disabling “Shortcuts” works for me.
I hope that it will be fixed next version.

@Hasthohaha

you could create an Apple shortcut which starts your script without go via edit/run

you could start your scripts with

import os import sys os.chmod(sys.argv[0],0o100444) # set script as readonly

to make it as readonly, so your friend would not be able to change your code. Of course, he could always go in command/console mode and reset the flag.

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@guran Pythonista doc says "The scene module provides an easy way to create hardware-accelerated 2D graphics and animations, specifically games."
Thus, in your case, I should use ui.