Been playing around with RunString implementations looking for what works best. Here is my result. I am able to run any python script loaded from file just fine. Also, between calls to RunString local variables are saved just fine.

protected static PyDict locals = null;

public static PyObject RunString(string code) { PyObject module = ImportModule("__main__"); PyDict globals = new PyDict(Runtime.PyModule_GetDict(module.Handle));

if (locals == null) { locals = new PyDict(Runtime.PyDict_New()); }

IntPtr result = Runtime.PyRun_String(code, (IntPtr)257, globals.Handle, locals.Handle);

if (result == IntPtr.Zero) { return null; }

return new PyObject(result); }