Sorry. That would be ucs4 vs ucs2. Never post to a mailing list drunk or risk 
confusing obscure Unicode protocols with obscure pyqt tools. Learn from my 
mistakes. 

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On May 16, 2012, at 12:24 AM, Brad Friedman <b...@fie.us> wrote:

> MoCo eh?  You may want to look into cython. It's a good complimentary tech. I 
> find that looking for binary releases of python.net is futile. I do the 
> equivalent of static compiling into my projects. 
> 
> Even if you get the right python version... 32 vs 64?  Pyuic 2 vs 4?  Too 
> many variables. 
> 
> If you do the "right thing" and listen to supported version info, you can't 
> get a single module built binary compatible between RHEL linux's python, and 
> autodesk Maya's statically linked python. Why should python.net work without 
> compiling separate versions too?
> 
> Once you accept that c python isn't binary compatible with itself, compiling 
> python.net  into your apps and environment makes a lot more sense.
> 
> You might also consider RPC approaches. Pickle works in both. I've considered 
> looking into pyro to communicate between cpython and iron python as well. I 
> keep coming back to python.net though. 
> 
> On May 15, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Kenny Koller <kenny_kol...@bio-rad.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm currently trying to access both a managed and unmanaged DLL. The former 
>> gives me access to a high resolution encoder via USB and the latter our 
>> motion control system also via USB using ctypes.
>> 
>> I'll need to mix this kind of this often during our development cycle and 
>> I'm looking for a long term solution.
>> 
>> IronPython works surprisingly well but I'm not sure IronClad is quite there 
>> to give me access to ctypes. Also the load time is slow when running scripts 
>> quickly back-to-back which I do often.
>> 
>> Python for .NET looks to be a nice solution because I can access the CPython 
>> stuff without worry but I find the documentation lacking and it's unclear 
>> how active this project is. On the documentation side I just find these .zip 
>> downloads but I could not find the installers that are mentioned to 
>> integrate with an existing 2.7 installation Python.
>> 
>> So is this dying? Will you share with me why you are using this rather than 
>> IronPython?
>> 
>> I hope this doesn't sound harsh. I think these kinds of efforts are 
>> fantastic.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Kenny
>> 
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