Chapter 14. Extending IronPython with C#/VB.NET

This chapter covers

  • Creating class libraries for IronPython

  • .NET attributes and IronPython

  • Calling unmanaged code with P/Invoke

  • Creating dynamic objects with C#/VB.NET

  • Compiling assemblies at runtime

There is a standard mantra about performance when programming with Python (CPython). The mantra goes something like this: “Code in Python first; then profile and optimize your bottlenecks. Finally, if you still need your code to run faster, rewrite the performance-sensitive parts of your code in C.” Okay, as mantras go there are probably snappier ones, but it still contains a lot of wisdom. Of course, with IronPython we wouldn’t drop down to C[1] but into C# or VB.NET instead.

This is an area where IronPython ...

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