You can just import static functions instead. Something like: public static class ScriptHelpers { public static object AddNumbers(params object[] args) { return 42; } }
Add the reference and then: from ScriptHelpers import * If you really need to construct an instance for some reason you could do it inside of AddNumbers and do the .GetReturn there as well. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Slutter > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:59 PM > To: Discussion of IronPython > Subject: Re: [IronPython] Calling functions in IronPython that don't > really exist > > Actually this doesn't exactly work. If I want the command to be able to > return a value, I can't go with the constructor route: > > res = AddNumbers( 3, 5 ); > > you want res equal to "8", but really it is an instance of my > AddNumbers > class. I don't want the script writers to be able to save this class > instance, and it would be 'ugly' if they had to call ".GetReturn()" to > get the return value of the command. > > And I don't want the call to "Do" to be explicit. > > I sound really picky... > > > Dino Viehland wrote: > > Do you mean you'd call it like "AddNumbers().Do(3, 4)"? > > > > This is really easy. Make AddNumbers public, then do: > > > > import clr > > clr.AddReference('MyAssembly') > > import AddNumbers > > AddNumbers().Do(3, 4) > > > > If you really want to do AddNumbers(3, 4) then you'd just write it > as: > > > > public class AddNumbers > > { > > public AddNumbers(params object[] args) { > > Do(args); > > } > > public string Do( params object[] args ) > > { > > ..check args.. > > ..add the two arguments.. > > ..return the result as a string.. > > } > > } > > > > And do the same: > > > > import clr > > clr.AddReference('MyAssembly') > > import AddNumbers > > AddNumbers(3, 4) > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com