Access Ironpython dictionary from C#

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I have dictionary defined in Ironpython script and I want to access this dictionary from my C# code. Can someone provide example code to achieve my requirement. Sorry earlier I did not mention my problem statement with code. ``` import clr clr.AddReference("System.Core") import System clr.ImportExtensions(System.Linq) from System.Collections.Generic import Dictionary,List def check(self): dict1 = Dictionary[str,str] dict1["a"] = "aa" dict2 = Dictionary[str,str] dict2["b"] = "bb" self[0] = dict1 # self.Add(dict1) return self ``` C# ``` var runtime = Python.CreateRuntime(); dynamic test = runtime.UseFile("Test.py"); var myDictList = new List>(); var myDL = new List>(); myDL = test.check(myDictList); ``` My objective is to operate(Add, remove from list) on List of Dictionary in python and send it back to C# where I can use it further. What I want is either create a list of dictionary in python or in C# and use it in both( python and C…

Accepted Answer

This works:

```
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Scripting.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Scripting.Utils;
using Microsoft.Scripting.Runtime;
using IronPython;
using IronPython.Hosting;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            ScriptEngine pyEngine = Python.CreateEngine();
            ScriptScope pyScope = pyEngine.CreateScope();
            ScriptSource pyScript = pyEngine.CreateScriptSourceFromString("d = {'a':1,'b':2,'c':3}");
            CompiledCode pyCompiled = pyScript.Compile();
            pyCompiled.Execute(pyScope);
            IronPython.Runtime.PythonDictionary d = pyScope.GetVariable("d");
            Console.WriteLine(d.get("a"));
            Console.Read();
        }
    }
}
```

Should give you the first value for key 'a'. Hope this gets you going. Possibly there are one or two includes too many.

Access Ironpython dictionary from C#

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