Jeff answered the Unicode/str part, so I'll answer the following code part. Ultimately these come from the properties in Builtin.cs:
public static PythonType unicode { get { return DynamicHelpers.GetPythonTypeFromType(typeof(string)); } } public static PythonType str { get { return DynamicHelpers.GetPythonTypeFromType(typeof(string)); } } Ultimately we produce a PythonModule which has a PythonDictionary. All of our dictionaries have a storage class which abstracts way how the dictionary is actually implemented. For built-in modules we have a ModuleDictionaryStorage object. The ModuleDictionaryStorage lazily reflects over the module type and caches the result. For properties it'll pull the value out the first time it's accessed. From: ironpython-users-bounces+dinov=microsoft....@python.org [mailto:ironpython-users-bounces+dinov=microsoft....@python.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Fernandez Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 8:55 PM To: ironpython-users@python.org Subject: [Ironpython-users] type for unicode and str Hi All, I was just playing with unicode strings and I notice a difference with CPython and IronPython. On CPython 2.7.2 I get the following >>> type(u"A") <type 'unicode'> >>> type("A") <type 'str'> On Ironpython the latest 2.7.2 Alpha 1 I get the following >>> type(u"A") <type 'str'> >>> type("A") <type 'str'> I decided to crack open the source and see where this type function is defined. I followed to the builtin.cs with the PythonModule but I got kind lost there. If anyone can provide some helpful hints that would be great. Thanks Danny
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