[IronPython] Beta3: System.StackOverflowException

[Anthony Tarlano]

More Info.. The import works fine if instead of clr.AddReference you
use clrAddReferenceByPartialName.. See this output

IronPython 1.0.2237 (Beta) on .NET 2.0.50727.42
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>>> import clr
>>> clr.AddReferenceByPartialName("System.Xml")
>>> import System.Xml
>>> dir(System.Xml)
['ConformanceLevel', 'EntityHandling', 'Formatting', 'IHasXmlNode', 'IXmlLineInf
o', 'IXmlNamespaceResolver', 'NameTable', 'NewLineHandling', 'ReadState', 'Schem
a', 'Serialization', 'ValidationType', 'WhitespaceHandling', 'WriteState', 'XPat
h', 'XmlAttribute', 'XmlAttributeCollection', 'XmlCDataSection', 'XmlCharacterDa
ta', 'XmlComment', 'XmlConvert', 'XmlDateTimeSerializationMode', 'XmlDeclaration
', 'XmlDocument', 'XmlDocumentFragment', 'XmlDocumentType', 'XmlElement', 'XmlEn
tity', 'XmlEntityReference', 'XmlException', 'XmlImplementation', 'XmlLinkedNode
', 'XmlNameTable', 'XmlNamedNodeMap', 'XmlNamespaceManager', 'XmlNamespaceScope'
, 'XmlNode', 'XmlNodeChangedAction', 'XmlNodeChangedEventArgs', 'XmlNodeChangedE
ventHandler', 'XmlNodeList', 'XmlNodeOrder', 'XmlNodeReader', 'XmlNodeType', 'Xm
lNotation', 'XmlOutputMethod', 'XmlParserContext', 'XmlProcessingInstruction', '
XmlQualifiedName', 'XmlReader', 'XmlReaderSettings', 'XmlResolver', 'XmlSecureRe
solver', 'XmlSignificantWhitespace', 'XmlSpace', 'XmlText', 'XmlTextReader', 'Xm
lTextWriter', 'XmlTokenizedType', 'XmlUrlResolver', 'XmlValidatingReader', 'XmlW
hitespace', 'XmlWriter', 'XmlWriterSettings', 'Xsl', '__builtins__', '__dict__',
 '__name__']
>>>

On 2/18/06, Anthony Tarlano <mailinglist.account at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I after installing Beta 3, I tried to add a reference to System.Xml
> and received a  System.StackOverflowException, any thoughts?
>
> Anthony
>
> IronPython 1.0.2237 (Beta) on .NET 2.0.50727.42
> Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> >>> import clr
> >>> import System
> >>> clr.AddReference("System.Xml")
>
> And the Visual Studio Just-In-Time debugger popped up with the
> exception "An unhandled exception ('<System.StackOverflowException>')
> occurred in IronPythonConsole.exe[488].
>