Custom delegates and wrapping class instance in .net object

[Eugene Yakubovich]

Hi,

I'm using Python .Net in conjuction with .Net WinForms to do some GUI
development. What I have is one class that derives from Control and has
all the GUI code and one class that handles all the network I/O (using
standard Python sockets). The network I/O code runs in a separate thread
and when it receives some data it needs to pass it to the GUI thread to
display it. What I need is a custom delegate. If it was a C# program, it
would be really easy to create:
        public delegate void DataArrived(object data);

With Python.Net I don't see how I can do that. What I ended up doing is
writing a simple assembly in C# that just contains the following lines:

        public delegate void NoArgDelegate();
        public delegate void ObjectArgDelegate(object arg);
        public delegate void ArrayArgDelegate(object[] arg);

My hope is to keep this utility assembly around for those times when I
need a custom delegate. The delegates are somewhat general and with the
last one, it is possible to pass as many arguments as needed. I would
like to know, however, if anyone else encountered this problem and how
they solved it. Is there a way to solve it with pure Python .Net
(without C#)? If not, maybe a custom delegate(s) should be included into
Python .Net?

My second problem is that I can't pass Python class instances as
arguments to my delegates. For example:

def callback(arg):
        pass
d = ObjectArgDelegate(callback)

class PythonClass(object):
        pass

d(PythonClass())

Results in:

TypeError: no method matches given arguments


Is there a way to convert a python class instance to a .Net object and
then convert it back to python class instance?

Eugene
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[Brian Lloyd-2]

> What I need is a custom delegate. If it was a C# program, it
> would be really easy to create:
> public delegate void DataArrived(object data);
>
> With Python.Net I don't see how I can do that. What I ended up doing is
> writing a simple assembly in C# that just contains the following lines:
>
> public delegate void NoArgDelegate();
> public delegate void ObjectArgDelegate(object arg);
> public delegate void ArrayArgDelegate(object[] arg);
>
> My hope is to keep this utility assembly around for those times when I
> need a custom delegate. The delegates are somewhat general and with the
> last one, it is possible to pass as many arguments as needed. I would
> like to know, however, if anyone else encountered this problem and how
> they solved it. Is there a way to solve it with pure Python .Net
> (without C#)? If not, maybe a custom delegate(s) should be included into
> Python .Net?

I don't think I understand what you're trying to do well enough
to advise here - if you can post an example that would be
helpful.

>
> My second problem is that I can't pass Python class instances as
> arguments to my delegates. For example:
>
> def callback(arg):
> pass
> d = ObjectArgDelegate(callback)
>
> class PythonClass(object):
> pass
>
> d(PythonClass())
>
> Results in:
>
> TypeError: no method matches given arguments
>
>
> Is there a way to convert a python class instance to a .Net object and
> then convert it back to python class instance?

In this case, you should just be able to have PythonClass
inherit from System.Object - that will get it a default
conversion that should work for what you want to do.


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