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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>Hi,
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>First let me say
that I'm new to Iron Python, but at least I've read this in the FAQ..
:)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>Q: How do I build
and call into <B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(160,255,255)">PYD</B>
libraries?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>A: <B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,102)">IronPython</B> does not
support using PYDs built for CPython since they leverage implementation details
of CPython. You can get a similar effect for new "<B
style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(160,255,255)">PYD</B>"s you would
like to implement by writing them in C# or VB and building a DLL for
.NET.</DIV></SPAN></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>That said, I've got
some questions to see if what I'm doing is possible anyway.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>We've got a c
library of which most of the code has also been written in Python. We want to
create an editor using .net forms which we can use to edit some files, and to do
that we need some data structures that exist in this library.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>My current idea is
to interface against the python library using IronPython, and then accessing the
datastructures through that in C# (although if absolutely necessary, we could
write the editor in IronPython too). The thing that is standing against me now
is that one function that exists a small C dll. Since IronPython can't access
this (unless this has changed since the FAQ was written?), I was thinking that
maybe I can compile the dll using the /clr flag and thus get a .net assembly.
Would I then be able to use the function?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=026100616-31072008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>The Python code just
tries to import it:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=026100616-31072008>import AvHash</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=026100616-31072008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>And then use
it..</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>def
AdfHash(str):<BR> return
AvHash.HashString(str)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=026100616-31072008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=026100616-31072008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>At the import
statement, this error is raised:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>Traceback (most
recent call last):<BR> File X:\ctg\libs\ADF\main\common\modeditor.ipy,
line 20, in Initialize<BR> File , line 0, in __import__##4<BR> File
X:\ctg\libs\ADF\main\common\AdfLib.py, line 1, in Initialize<BR> File ,
line 0, in __import__##4<BR>ImportError: No module named
AvHash</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=026100616-31072008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=026100616-31072008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>Or is there some
other solution? I've just started researching how to interface between
C/C#/Python/IronPython so there may well be things I haven't heard
of...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=026100616-31072008>I hope I've made my
problem clear, thanks for any responses. :)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=026100616-31072008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=026100616-31072008>/Anders</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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