[IronPython] Loading Python modules from Silverlight Isolated Storage

[Kenneth Miller]

Thanks for the reply.

Would you mind elaborating?

Regards,
Ken

On Nov 4, 2008, at 8:47 AM, Michael Foord wrote:

> Kenneth Miller wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> The problem is illustrated here:
>>
>> This code will work properly:
>>
>> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/90071/
>>
>> This code produces an error:
>>
>> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/90072/
>
> Different issue. Exec'ing explicitly inside a namespace avoids that  
> problem altogether.
>
> Michael
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ken
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2008, at 4:42 AM, Michael Foord wrote:
>>
>>> Kenneth Miller wrote:
>>>> It was proven to me that while exec might work for simple cases,  
>>>> more advanced usage (declaring a lambda function inside an exec)  
>>>> can be problematic. It was advised that I generate python modules  
>>>> and dynamically import them. If memory served me, it's not  
>>>> possible to import a module from a string object.
>>>>
>>> I have often generated (or loaded code into a string) and then  
>>> exec'd it into a module dict to create modules at runtime. It is a  
>>> relatively normal technique in Python.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> - Ken
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 4, 2008, at 12:45 AM, "Curt Hagenlocher" <curt at hagenlocher.org 
>>>>  <mailto:curt at hagenlocher.org> <mailto:curt at hagenlocher.org>>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You should be able to do this all in-memory:
>>>>>
>>>>> >>> import sys
>>>>> >>> foo = type(sys)('foo')
>>>>> >>> sys.modules['foo'] = foo
>>>>> >>> exec 'a = 1' in foo.__dict__
>>>>> >>> foo.a
>>>>> 1
>>>>> >>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There's probably a better ("more Pythonic") way to do this, but  
>>>>> I'm sleepy...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Kenneth Miller <xkenneth at gmail.com 
>>>>>  <mailto:xkenneth at gmail.com> <mailto:xkenneth at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   All,
>>>>>
>>>>>     Is it possible to have python load modules from the  
>>>>> silverlight
>>>>>   isolated storage? My app needs to dynamically generate and  
>>>>> import
>>>>>   python code to run.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Regards,
>>>>>   Ken
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