Ahh, well if it's ASP.NET it's all multi-threaded because you're probably 
handling more than one request at a time.

From: users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com 
[mailto:users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Dalmazzo
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 4:49 AM
To: IronPython Mailing list
Subject: Re: [IronPython] expected behavior of the module copy with .net objects

thanks for the reply Dino, If I get any additional info  about it, I'll post it.

In one application (which triggered the error you mentioned it) Im using an 
asp.net timer. That runs in another thread, right?

Greetings, Pablo


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From: di...@microsoft.com
To: users@lists.ironpython.com
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:47:04 +0000
Subject: Re: [IronPython] expected behavior of the module copy with .net objects
I think as of now copy is certainly not suitable for all .NET objects.  For 
starters not all .NET objects are serializable/copyable.  There should probably 
be some effort to close the gaps where it makes sense.  For example something 
which implements ICloneable could have a __copy__ method added to it.  This is 
similar to how we add a __reduce_ex__ method for things which implement 
ISerializable.  But if something doesn't implement either of these interfaces 
then there's no standard way for us to copy these objects.

If you have specific object types which you know you need to copy I would 
suggest registering the type with copy_reg.  That should at least give you a 
solution for your specific scenarios.

You also mentioned the null reference exception ("object reference not set to 
object instance...").  That sounds like a bug - I would guess you're running in 
a multi-threaded environment?  If you could get a repro of this that'd be great 
as it looks like it could be an issue w/ our dictionary implementation not 
being thread safe.

From: users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com 
[mailto:users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Dalmazzo
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:51 AM
To: IronPython Mailing list
Subject: [IronPython] expected behavior of the module copy with .net objects

Hi guys,

Sorry for being annoying about this but I just want to know where I'm standing 
at :)

It would seem to me the copy module has some problems copying .net objects in 
general. I was wondering if I'm pretending too much for that module and it will 
never fully copy  objects instantiated from .net classes, or it's a goal  for 
it to do it someday, or I just happened to find a couple of errors, or Im not 
using it rightly for what it was meant to be. I dont know 5% of what you know 
so it's an honest question :)

Aside there are a couple of errors I cant reproduce, and that it didnt copy 
System.DBNull , now I see it loses property values when copying
a System.Data.SqlConnection object, properties such as "DataSource", 
"DataBase", etc. they get empty strings after being copied. Just in case
I tried with the original version of the module/file copy. I guess you have 
thousands of things to check but I just want to know, it's the module supposed 
to copy any object instantiated from .net classes or it's only supposed to 
fully work only for custom made classes?

Greetings, Pablo Dalmazzo

P.S: sorry about insisting again with this but I've also added another example 
where it seems to fail :)









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