Network Programming in .NET

Here is a simple example of how to call an IronPython function from C#

Here is the PY file: (With URL & Regex removed)

import urllib2
import re
import array

def getRoutes():
    strRouteRegex = '(?<From>[A-Z]{3})...\d+..iata...=..(?<To>[A-Z]{3})'
    httpRequest = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.somewebsite.com/")
    html = httpRequest.read()
    routesArray = []
    for m in re.finditer(strRouteRegex, html):
        route = FlightRoute()
        route.depart = m.group('From')
        route.arrive = m.group('To')
        routesArray.append(route)
    return routesArray;

class FlightRoute:
    depart = ''
    arrive = ''

And here is the C# calling code – This requires the .NET 4 to handle the dynamic types.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using IronPython.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Scripting.Hosting;

namespace CSPY
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            const string strPy = @"C:\research\Program.py";
            ScriptEngine engine = Python.CreateEngine();
            var lPath = new List<string> {@"c:\Program Files\IronPython 2.7\Lib"};
            engine.SetSearchPaths(lPath);
            ScriptRuntime scripting = engine.Runtime;
            dynamic runtime = scripting.UseFile(strPy);
            dynamic routes = runtime.getRoutes();
            foreach(dynamic route in routes)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(route.depart + " -> " + route.arrive);
            }
            Console.Read();
        }
    }
}
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