[IronPython] Type.GetType returns None

[J. Merrill]

Those aren't comparable statements.  If you had passed "String" (in quotes) in your C# I think that would have worked, but "string" should not -- the Type.GetType(string) overload is defined as a case-sensitive search, and in general wants an "assembly qualified name".

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.type.assemblyqualifiedname.aspx

Perhaps all would be fine in pure IP if you had just used Type.GetType(String) or String.GetType(); I'm away and not easily able to try it myself.

I would guess that the cause is that Python's "string" type (lowercase without the quotes) is not the same as .Net's "String" type (mixed case without quotes).

At 09:48 AM 3/10/2007, Michael Foord wrote
>Michael Foord wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Why does "Type.GetType(string)" return None from IronPython ?
>>
>> I need to use it with names like "Console", "int" and "string" - 
>> fetching the .NET type objects. I guess this is because of the reflected 
>> types ? Do I have an alternative that will work ? (other than stub C#).
>>   
>Interesting - even with the following C# called from IronPython it 
>returns None. The code I am translating is from the MSDN docs. Any clues ?
>
>namespace SimpleTest
>{
>    public class SimpleTest
>    {
>        public static Type getType(string typename){
>            return Type.GetType(typename);
>        }
>}
>
>Michael Foord
>http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/


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