To expose a whole namespace the simplest way is probably to call scriptRuntime.LoadAssembly(some_assembly); All of the public types will then be available for importing from IronPython. That means they won't all be available at the top-level. If that's not ok you could use reflection and call DynamicHelpers.GetPythonTypeFromType(...) and inject all the types you want.
As for interop the performance should be fine. When using dynamic from C# the overhead should basically be similar to the overhead of calling a function within Python. And for Python calling into C# the overhead is the same as any Python code calling into any of the runtime - in other words pretty darn fast. For a simple function call to a Python function last I measured I believe it was around 40 instructions on x86 to perform the call. For example on my laptop this runs in about 1/3 of a second and performs 10 million function calls: import time def f(): def g(): pass for i in xrange(10000000): g() s = time.clock() f() e = time.clock() print e - s So what probably matters a lot more is what the function is doing. From: users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Iivari Mokelainen Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:29 AM To: users@lists.ironpython.com Subject: [IronPython] Integration Salut, fellow coders! I have an application where i need some live coding to debug and use it. I've been coding in C# for ages now. I looked into different languages, and found python. And obviously fell in love. Now i have a home-made interactive python console with my application. I implemented suggestions with dir() and so on. tldr: The problem im facing is that I need to integrate whole application with the console now. I know I can expose types and variables thru scope.SetVariable but what I need is to expose a whole namespace to the scope. Any help would be appreciated. P.S. How fast is interop between python and C#? Would it be ok to have a python function as dynamic in C# and calling it about 250 times a second? Thanks, Iivari Mokelainen
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