pinvoke VS PythonNet

Hooks are a low-level Win 32 API and are not directly exposed from the BCL, so you either need to write your own P/Invoke code (maybe using something like https://github.com/dotnet/pinvoke)

To add to the pile of solutions for this: https://github.com/dotnet/pinvoke

I'm using the PInvoke libraries (cf. https://github.com/dotnet/pinvoke/). And if my mouse hovers a split of a second over PInvoke.User32 or even worse PInvoke.Kernel32, VS will freeze for 2 minutes trying to render the very big summary of those classes.

If you're running the python within C# using Python.NET, then you're somewhat within-process and there are ways of sending the data across. (Return objects, channel/queues, whatever fits your use case.)

I am not set on .NET, but just curious, so thanks for the suggestions. Interesting that it's billed as cross-plaform, but doesn't do it that well. I just searched 'python wrapper for .net' and found PythonNET. Also, it seems yes IronPython is active.

There's other modules that provide the interface to .NET. The pywin32 module is very popular to allow access to the complete Windows API. Or try Pythonnet.

I created a Django based python project that interfaces to TIA Openness to create some Remote IO. To do this I use the pythonnet library. so that I can load the Openness DLL.

Any .NET language with https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet

We’re going to be looking at Python for .NET in order to accomplish this goal. This library allows you to take advantage of Python installed on the running machine from within your .NET Core applications. You must configure it to point at the corresponding Python DLL that you’d like to use, and after a couple of lines of initialization you’re off to the races!

There is also PythonNET which is a wrapper around the actual C based Python implementation (python.org). I don't know about a sandboxing capability though.

Maybe PythonNET can do what you need? http://pythonnet.github.io. My use case was embedding a Python engine into my app, but I believe you could use it to create a "module" for Python. I would recommend writing a wrapper that does the import clr and so forth automatically though, so the user doesn't have to do that themselves.

I have found this issue after searching but the workaround didn't work for me.