It is one of our open design issues to work out in the (hopefully near) future. It would definitely be useful to be able to use C-based Python modules with IronPython in some way.
Martin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Gogins Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:08 AM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: Re: [IronPython] importing os module Why does it not play with C? Surely this would be immensely helpful. Regards, MIke -----Original Message----- From: "J. Merrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Nov 1, 2005 10:06 AM To: Discussion of IronPython <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [IronPython] importing os module IP does indeed "not play with C at all". The plan, I believe, is to re-create some common C-based Python libraries (with C# or in Python) to ease the porting. At 02:09 AM 11/1/2005, Liam Clarke wrote >Now, my question on os is, what does IronPython have against pipe() ? >Does IronPython not play with C at all? > >Regards, > >Liam Clarke > > >On 11/1/05, Martin Maly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> You can set sys.path to point to CPython's Lib directory which >> includes os >> module: >> >> >>> import sys >> >>> sys.path.append("C:\\Python24\Lib") >> >>> import os >> >>> os.name >> 'nt' >> >> You can even put the first 2 lines into your site.py (located in >> IronPython's Bin\lib directory) >> >> Martin >[snip] J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
