Haran - you can't expose a 'module' (in the Python sense), but you can easily do what you trying to do. The usual pattern for this would be stow away a reference to your application object in a static where the Python code can then get it. Assuming you have an assembly 'my.app', this would look like: namespace my.app { public class MyApp { public static MyApp theapp; public MyApp() { // do initialization theapp = this; } } } Now from Python you can do the following: from my.app import MyApp app = MyApp.theapp hope this helps, -Brian

-----Original Message----- From: pythondotnet-bounces@python.org [mailto:pythondotnet-bounces@python.org] On Behalf Of Haran Shivanan Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 11:27 PM To: pythondotnet@python.org Subject: [Python.NET] exposing modules

Hi,

I'm trying to embed the python interpreter in my .NET-based program. The basic stuff is working fine. But now, I want to expose some of my program's internal data to the scripts. (ie, not just functions that live in an assembly, but access to my live program's state) For example, if I have a WinForms application, I want to be able to access a textbox's current text from python. Ideally, I should be able to do something like this from a script: import MyApp s = MyApp.GetText()

Is there any way to do this in Python.NET? And if not, can someone provide me with some pointers on how to go about adding the functionality to the Python.NET code? (I believe we have to use issue a call to Py_InitModule or something, right?)

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