Question

I have a class in .NET (C#):

public class MyHelper {
    public object exec( string script, params object[] arguments ) {
        // execute script with passed arguments in some external enviroment
    }
}

I’m using IronPython runtime in my code to run python scripts, which should in some cases call the “exec” method. I would like serve the comfortable way to call the “exec” method. Something like:

helper.exec( "someExternalFunction( {0}, {1}, {3} )", var01, var02, var03 )

But I don’t know how to declare the “exec” method in C# to achieve this. In python I can use a “*args” argument:

def exec( script, *args ):
    ... do something ...

I don’t want have separate Python method “exec” from “MyHelper” class, because the “MyHelper” class provides complex functionality “in one place”.

How should I write the “exec” method declaration in C# to achieve that? Or what other solution should I use?

Thanks

Answer 1

The problem here is that “exec” is a keyword in Python so you can’t use that as your function name. You could use “exec_” or execute or something like that instead. Alternately you could write:

getattr(helper, ‘exec’)(…)