[IronPython] Extension methods in python

[Dino Viehland]

In this case widget is the string "hello world" so it won't work.  If it was instead something like:

class x(object): pass
a = x()

...
Then in C# you could do:

widget = scope.GetVariable("a")

then you could do engine.Operations.SetMember(widget, "foo", () => "hello world");

and then back in Python:

a.foo()

prints hello world.

Probably not what you're looking for but it's all that is there today :(

From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Marty Nelson
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:59 PM
To: Discussion of IronPython
Subject: Re: [IronPython] Extension methods in python

>> If it's an object defined in Python you can usually attach methods directly to the object or it's Python type.

So how would this work?

Let's say I had injested a variable into the scope from c#:  scope.SetVarialble("widget", "hello world")

Can I do something in python so that I can then type:

print widget.ToFoo()

print widget.ToBar()

That would theoretically output:

hello worldFoo
hello worldBar


 But otherwise we have no support for automatically adding .NET extension methods to existing types currently.  It is a frequent request and we will probably get to it at some point.

From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Marty Nelson
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:50 PM
To: Discussion of IronPython
Subject: [IronPython] Extension methods in python

Is there the equivalent of extension method in python?  I want to put a variable into the script scope and create extension methods for it.  Does this make sense and is it possible?

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