Is there a way to use .NET DLL from Python

[Fuzzyman]

On Feb 13, 6:58 pm, "Luis M. González" <luis... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 feb, 00:26, Dino Viehland <di... at exchange.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > >> Oh, I know what you mean.
> > >> But that was exactly the reason for having a .DLLs folder, isn't it?
> > >> When you place an assembly into this folder, you avoid having to write
> > >> this boilerplate code, and simply import the assembly as you would
> > >> with a normal python module. At least, that´s how it worked in
> > >> previous versions...
> > >No. You have always had to add references to assemblies before being
> > >able to use the namespaces they contain. You even have to do this with
> > >C# in Visual Studio.
>
> > This *should* work in bothIronPython1.x and IronPyton 2.0 - the catch though is that it's implemented in the default site.py we ship with.  So if you do the usual thing and use CPython's Lib directory you'll lose this feature w/o copying it over.
>
> Sorry Dino, I don't understand...
> What does Cpython's Lib have to do with it?

If you have the CPython standard library in your IRONPYTHONPATH, then
when IronPython does it's normal 'import site' on startup the CPython
one will be used instead of the default IronPython one...

Michael Foord
http://www.manning.com/foord