[IronPython] upgrading to ip 2b3 in Resolver One

[Christian Muirhead]

Hi guys -

I mentioned the other day that I was doing some work towards us porting 
Resolver One to IP 2b3. I've got it working (mostly), but hit some bumps 
along the way that I figured it would be worth mentioning here:

* As I noted before, passing in arguments to the hosted engine was a bit 
obscure (although it sounds like the API for this is a work in progress).

* Another thing I saw here was that you can't set __name__ in a scope 
when running a script loaded from a source file - that is, this:

ScriptSource source = engine.CreateScriptSourceFromFile("test.py");
ScriptScope scope = e.CreateScope();
scope.SetVariable("__name__", "__main__");
source.Execute(scope);

when test.py contains

print __name__


prints "test"


* Can't assign to an instance's __doc__ attribute - we use this for our 
documentation generation in one place. (This works in IP 1.1.1, and 
CPython.) Shouldn't be hard to work around in the meantime.

* We get deprecation warnings when we access protected members of C# 
classes from IP subclasses - I can understand this for code outside of 
subclasses (which shouldn't work but does in IP 1.1.1), but it would be 
nice if it still worked from code in a subclass. (This would be easy to 
work around for us - the protected members are all on dialogs we define 
in C#, so we can change them to public if we need to.)

D'oh - I was just about to tell you about a weird thing I had seen where 
calling ScriptScope.SetVariable(name, value) when value is None fails - 
it dispatches to the (string, ObjectHandle) overload for some reason. 
Then I realised that the problem was that I was trying to use the C# API 
from IP, when I could just call setattr with the scope instead. That 
works fine. (And now I remember the .Overloads property to select 
between them.)

Now that it's working, the performance is about 4x slower than under 
1.1.1. I'm in the process of drilling down into that for specific 
operations that are drastically different - hopefully they'll be nicely 
isolated.

Thanks,
Christian

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Christian Muirhead
Resolver Systems
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