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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Higher compatibility of the clr module with IronPython","articleBody":"I think it would be a good idea to put some work into making the `clr` module we provide as (backwards?) compatible with IronPython as possible.\r\n\r\nThis is the implementation: https://github.com/IronLanguages/main/blob/master/Languages/IronPython/IronPython/Runtime/ClrModule.cs\r\n\r\nThese are the public members\r\n\r\n- [ ] Field `bool IsNetStandard`\r\n- [ ] Methods `AddReference{,ToFile,ToFileAndPath,ByName,ByPartialName}`\r\n- [ ] Methods `LoadAssembly{FromFileWithPath,FromFile,ByPartialName,ByName}`\r\n- [ ] Methods `Use` (essentially a \"generic\" `import`, we could map it directly to that)\r\n- [ ] Methods `GetString` (decode .NET byte arrays as Latin1)\r\n- [ ] Methods `GetBytes` (encode a .NET string as a byte array in Latin1)\r\n- [ ] Method `SetCommandDispatcher` (likely not applicable)\r\n- [ ] Methods `ImportExtensions` (already requested by yours truly in #55)\r\n- [ ] COM-related functions `LoadTypeLibrary`, `AddReferenceToTypeLibrary`, `PublishTypeLibDesc`\r\n- [x] Method `GetClrType` (#433)\r\n- [ ] Method `GetPythonType` (takes a .NET `Type` object and returns the corresponding wrapped Python type)\r\n- [ ] Method `GetDynamicType` (obsoleted, same as `GetPythonType`)\r\n- [ ] Types `Reference` and `StrongBox`  (#226)\r\n- [ ] Decorator `accepts` (checks the argument types supplied to the decorated function, should be implementable in pure Python)\r\n- [ ] Decorator `returns` (validates the result type of a function, also easy in Python)\r\n- [ ] Method `Self` (always returns `null`?!)\r\n- [ ] Methods `Dir` and `DirClr` (can both be mapped to `dir` in our case, I guess)\r\n- [ ] Method `Convert` (tries to convert the object to the passed type by casting explicitly #611 )\r\n- [ ] Methods `Compile{Modules,SubclassTypes}` (not applicable in our case)\r\n- [ ] Method `GetSubclassedTypes` (returns a tuple of all types that have been subclassed, does not make sense in CPython)\r\n\r\nWe could add stubs for all of these, raising `NotImplementedError` and port over everything that is simple or makes sense to us.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/filmor","@type":"Person","name":"filmor"},"datePublished":"2017-03-22T23:59:04.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/437/pythonnet/issues/437"}