[IronPython] (ironclad) is it possible to get the current ScriptEngine?

[William Reade]

Thanks Dino -- I'll see what I can do with that :)

Dino Viehland wrote:
> It's not really possible to get back to the ScriptEngine - but you also probably don't need to.  You probably want to get back to the LanguageContext(PythonContext)/ScriptDomainManager and work with those directly.  ScriptEngine/ScriptRuntime are wrappers around those which expose the friendly API and provide the easy remoting features.
>
> You can get to the LanguageContext via a CodeContext.  You can get a CodeContext by just defining it as the 1st parameter on a .NET method which we'll be calling at some point.
>
> For example our ModuleLoader class for pre-compiled code has a load_module method which receives a CodeContext.  It then uses it to call back into the current PythonContext and create a new module.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of William Reade
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:36 AM
> To: Discussion of IronPython
> Subject: [IronPython] (ironclad) is it possible to get the current ScriptEngine?
>
> Hi all
>
> At the moment, when a user types 'import ironclad', I create a new
> ScriptEngine and set that up to allow .pyd imports; I then abuse
> path_hooks to use the new engine to do the imports, and copy them into
> the original engine's sys.modules. Clearly, this is evil and wrong on
> any number of levels, but so far it's been (just barely) good enough.
>
> However, if I can find out which ScriptEngine is executing the code (so
> I can pass that into the Python25Mapper), I can greatly simplify
> ironclad.py and, hopefully, solve another user's problem (which, I
> believe, is related to sys.path not being shared between the two engines
> (quite rightly so, ofc ;))).
>
> So: is there any way I can get a reference to the executing engine from
> within IronPython code? It feels as if it should be possible, but
> whenever I look into it I end up chasing my tail...
>
> William
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