[IronPython] Powershell Sample and IP 2

[Michael Foord]

Dave Fugate wrote:
> Thanks for reporting this Michael!  We actually discovered this internally about a year ago in one of the 2.0 Alphas, and made a few changes to get it (mostly) working again:
>         E:\Merlin\Main\Languages\IronPython\Samples\IPPowerShell>ipyd
>         IronPython 2.0 Beta (2.0.0.1000) on .NET 2.0.50727.1434
>         Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>         >>> from powershell import shell
>         >>>
>
> At this point I think we'll probably end up re-releasing some of the IP 1.0 samples shortly after IP 2.0 RTM.  If you're interested in getting this working under Beta 1 now, the change is fairly simple - replace "ShellOutput.__dict__.update(cmds)" in powershell.py with "ShellOutput.out_string = ShellCommand("Out-String")".  Hope that helps.
>
>   

Well - that isn't an uncommon usage pattern in Python - so the bug that 
prevents you updating into an instance dict should be fixed as well. :-)

Michael

> Dave
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 3:21 PM
> To: Discussion of IronPython
> Subject: [IronPython] Powershell Sample and IP 2
>
> Hello all,
>
> Just to let you know that the IronPython Powershell sample is broken for
> IronPython 2:
>
>  >>> from powershell import shell
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File , line unknown, in Initialize##224
>   File , line unknown, in _stub_##3
>   File Snippets, line unknown, in Initialize
>   File Snippets, line unknown, in init_runspace
> AttributeError: 'dictproxy' object has no attribute 'update'
>
> :-(
>
> Michael
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