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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>I have some questions that may seem stupid, but I did not find the right answers yet. So simple pointers to the correct google query are as welcome as elaborate Howtos. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>J</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>For cPython, it is possible to compile a module into a .pyc file. If this file resides in sys.path, it is transparently used instead of the .py source file. (We can ignore the exact details of lookup and version dependency here.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>For IronPython, there is the pyc.py compiler script. This allows a python module to be precompiled into a .NET dll. However, it seems that it is not used transparently when placed in a directory in sys.path, one has to explicitly add a Reference to the dll (via clr.AddReference or hosting API).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Now my questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Is there any way to make this work transparently? (e. G. via a Flag to the interpreter, or a modified import() function, or renaming the .dll to .pyc?)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Is there a way to extend this mechanism to python modules created in C#? (Creating a “foo.dll” that contains a “foo” module created via PythonModuleAttribute, similar to the way the modules in Ironpython.Modules.dll are created).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>We’re currently using IronPytho 2.6 in a hosted .NET 2 environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks a lot,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Markus<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>