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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:30 PM

Hosting IronPython made easier

With 2.0 Beta 5 coming out very soon, there is a new hosting helper class in there called IronPython.Hosting.Python . It has a few helper methods to create a ScriptRuntime or ScriptEngine and adds some Python-specific extension methods to ScriptRuntime
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 10:13 PM

Passing keyword args to C# methods from IronPython

In Python one can call functions with either the argument itself or a named argument i.e f(3) or f(x=3). Python also provides syntax to absorb excess arguments for either style of argument passing with either * or **. So for example for this function
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:28 AM

Static Compilation of IronPython scripts

The ability to compile IronPython scripts into .NET IL and to save them to disk existed in IronPython 1.0 but has been missing in 2.0 so far. With IronPython 2.0 Beta4 this has been added back. Why would I compile dynamic language scripts? There are a
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Friday, June 13, 2008 11:58 PM

IronPython 2.0 Beta 3 is out!

The next stop on the path to IronPython 2.0 is Beta 3 and we pushed it out today. You can get the sources and binaries of IronPython here . As Jimmy mentioned in his release notes for Dynamic Silverlight last week, this release also contains the sources
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Friday, May 09, 2008 8:16 AM

Accessing IronPython objects from native Javascript

Today I got a question by e-mail from someone who wanted to implement something like this MSDN article in IronPython. The gist of the article is that there is a property called ObjectForScripting on a WinForms WebBrowser control. If one sets the property
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 3:16 AM

Turning your .NET object models dynamic for IronPython

Say you want to interop with a .NET library but you also want it to behave like objects in dynamic languages do. You want to be able to add/delete methods/properties to the object dynamically. In python you can do something like this: class x(object):
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:15 AM

PyCon 2008

PyCon 2008 was a lot of fun. This was my first PyCon and until now my interaction with the python community had been nothing beyond a few mails in the IronPython forum. My experiences of conferences so far has been limited to Microsoft ones like TechEd
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Monday, March 17, 2008 11:07 PM

Decorators to convert return statements to yield statements

We have this really cool tool that parses a python file into a AST and then morphs it according to some transformation and then spits out python code corresponding to the new AST. I've been playing around with it lately to come up with some transformations.
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Monday, March 17, 2008 11:03 PM

DeepZoom in dynamic languages

There's been a lot of talk lately about the DeepZoom technology in Silverlight 2. If you have seen it yet you should definitely goto HardRock's memorabilia site. That is a 2 billion pixels image that you see in that 640X480 segment there. Instead of getting
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:03 AM

What I like about Python

I've been dabbling with IronPython for the past two weeks now. For me it compares quite favourably to the experience I had driving in this country. I used to drive a manual transmission car back in India and I used C# primarily. When I came to the US
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