[IronPython] List<Python Class>

[Matthew Barnard]

Ahhh interesting. It doesn't look good for remoting then ;)


On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Curt Hagenlocher <curt at hagenlocher.org>
wrote:

> 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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