[IronPython] Access to current Python engine in C# (Silverlight)

[Michael Foord]

Thanks to some help from William Reade, this code *seems* to work fine. 
I need to try it from Silverlight and check the Python code it contains 
is able to import:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;


using IronPython.Hosting;
using IronPython.Runtime;
using IronPython.Runtime.Types;

using Microsoft.Scripting;
using Microsoft.Scripting.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Scripting.Runtime;


namespace ExecutePython
{
    public class ExecutePython
    {
        static string code = @"
class Foo(object):
    attribute = 'weeeee'

";
        public static Scope CreateModule(CodeContext context)
        {
            PythonContext python = PythonContext.GetContext(context);

            PythonDictionary globals = new PythonDictionary();
            globals["__name__"] = "AModule";
            Scope module = new Scope(globals);
            SourceUnit script = python.CreateSnippet(code, 
SourceCodeKind.Statements);
            script.Execute(module);
            return module;
        }
    }
}


All the best,


Michael


Michael Foord wrote:
> Jimmy - did you get a chance to look at this?
>
> If the code shown below *genuinely* gets a reference to the current 
> engine then shouldn't the search path be setup already?
>
> Can you see what is wrong with the code below?
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael
>
> Michael Foord wrote:
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> I have a second use case for embedding IronPython in Silverlight. 
>> This is actually a dynamic application with a C# component that needs 
>> to programattically build a Python module.
>>
>> Again I have the same problem - imports in Python code fail. I would 
>> have expected that accessing the current runtime and fetching a 
>> Python engine would fetch the current Python engine, with the browser 
>> host correctly setup. Unfortunately that seems not to be the case. 
>> Can anyone spot problems with the following code:
>>
>>
>> using Microsoft.Scripting.Silverlight;
>> using IronPython;
>> using IronPython.Hosting;
>> using Microsoft.Scripting;
>> using Microsoft.Scripting.Hosting;
>>
>> namespace EmbeddedSLModule
>> {
>>    public class EmbeddedSLModule
>>    {
>>        private static string source = @"
>> import something
>> ";
>>        public static ScriptScope GetModule(){
>>            ScriptRuntime runtime = DynamicApplication.Current.Runtime;
>>            ScriptEngine engine = runtime.GetEngine("Python");
>>            ScriptScope scope = engine.CreateScope();
>>            ScriptSource script = 
>> engine.CreateScriptSourceFromString(source, SourceCodeKind.Statements);
>>            script.Execute(scope);
>>
>>            return scope;
>>
>>        }
>>    }
>> }
>>
>>
>> It works fine for code that doesn't import anything - but imports 
>> from within the xap file fail.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michael Foord
>>
>
>


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