Sorry for the delay in responding, Alan. For the simplest scenarios you don't need to initialize PythonEngine. For example, consider:
class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { PythonEngine e = new PythonEngine(); object r = e.Evaluate("2+2"); //r == 4 } } For the more complicated cases, initialization is often necessary (for example to execute scripts that import modules and need sys.path initialized etc. You can refer to PythonCommandLine.cs to see how the IronPythonConsole initializes the PythonEngine. Essentially, we set up things 1) The sys.path variable (via PythonEngine.AddToPath method) 2) further setup of sys module (via PythonEngine.InitializeModules method) - this sets up sys.version, sys.prefix, sys.executable and sys.exec_prefix attributes 3) import site.py (via PythonEngine.ImportSite method) The interactive initialization is slightly different, but essentially this is all that is needed to get IronPython engine initialized. Hope this helps. Let me know if other questions arise. Martin > Alan Kennedy Wrote: > > Greetings all, > > I've worked a lot with jython in the past, and have often > made use of it by embedding it in java servers. > > I'd like to try the same thing with Ironpython. > > Is there any documentation on how to go about this? I'm > specifically interested in writing ironpython "servlets", > i.e. servicing web requests with ironpython code. > > Under jython, the interpreter has to be initialised before > scripts can be executed. Is a similar initialisation > necessary under ironpython? > > Thanks in advance, > > Regards, > > Alan. _______________________________________________ users-ironpython.com mailing list users-ironpython.com@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com