[IronPython] List<Python Class>

[Curt Hagenlocher]

Well in the example I gave, the type of class foo would genrally be
something like  IronPython.NewTypes.System.Object_1$2.  There's not going to
be any "native" CLR code to which you can pass a
List<IronPython.NewTypes.System.Object_1$2>, and if you're passing the data
to other Python code, you may as well do it as a Python list or tuple.  It's
the "dynamic" thing to do :).

List<IronPython.NewTypes.System.Object_1$2> isn't even type-safe for Python
classes because IronPython maintains a cache of generated types and will
reuse a type it has previously generated for any new class you define that's
compatible with a previously-defined class.


On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Matthew Barnard <m.stephen.barnard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Curt, in C# I use generics (list & dict) containing class instances
> quite often. Is there a caveat to the dynamic typing that I'm missing?
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Curt Hagenlocher <curt at hagenlocher.org>
> wrote:
>
> > This will get you a CLR type directly from your class object:
> >
> > class foo(object):
> >     pass
> > theType = clr.GetClrType(foo)
> >
> > What use do you have for creating a generic with the resulting
> > (dynamically-generated) type?
> >
> >   On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Matthew Barnard <
> > m.stephen.barnard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >  Is the following the only way to create a generic containing a python
> > > class?
> > >
> > >
> > > from System.Collections.Generic import List
> > > from System import Type
> > >
> > > class Foo:
> > >     >>class stuff<<
> > >
> > > l = List[Type.GetType(Foo())]()
> > >
> > >
> > > I assume this is the nature of dynamic typing, but is there a way to
> > > get the type from the classobj, and not an instance?
> > >
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