update: it seems as if import CLR from CLR.QuenceNET import bla does the trick, however that doesnt work on the python prompt. anyway, so far it all works great in the code, thanks for that wrapper, brian, with your work you have already filled a big hole in the compatibility chain. ----------------8<-------------------------- this is even funnier. importing a .net assembly seems only to work if the dll has been loaded before. in each try, i restart python from the directory where the .net DLL is located. first try: O:\Quence\debug>python Python 2.3.2 (#49, Oct 2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import CLR.QuenceNET Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named QuenceNET

second try: O:\Quence\debug>python Python 2.3.2 (#49, Oct 2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import CLR import CLR.QuenceNET Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named QuenceNET import QuenceNET Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (initQuenceNET) import CLR.QuenceNET dir(CLR.QuenceNET) ['__doc__', '__name__']

third try (optimized): O:\Quence\debug>python Python 2.3.2 (#49, Oct 2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import CLR import QuenceNET Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (initQuenceNET) import CLR.QuenceNET dir(CLR.QuenceNET) ['__doc__', '__name__']

fourth try (variant): O:\Quence\debug>python Python 2.3.2 (#49, Oct 2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import QuenceNET Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (initQuenceNET) import CLR.QuenceNET Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named QuenceNET import QuenceNET Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (initQuenceNET) import CLR.QuenceNET dir(CLR.QuenceNET) ['__doc__', '__name__']

so to import my custom assembly in python, the code currently looks like this: import CLR try: import QuenceNET # for the error except: pass # catch import CLR.QuenceNET -- Leonard Ritter -- paniq@gmx.net -- http://www.quence.com -- http://www.paniq.de