CSnakes: Embed Python code in .NET - Talk Python to Me Ep.486

If you are a .NET developer or work in a place that has some of those folks, wouldn't it be great to fully leverage the entirety of PyPI with it's almost 600,000 packages inside your .NET code? But how would you do this? Previous efforts have let you write Python syntax but using the full libraries (especially the C-based ones) has been out of reach, until CSnakes. This project by Anthony Shaw and Aaron Powell unlocks some pretty serious integration between the two languages. We have them both here on the show today to tell us all about it.
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Anthony Shaw: github.com/ton...
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Introducing CSnakes: tonybaloney.gi...
CSnakes: tonybaloney.gi...
Talk Python: We've moved to Hetzner: talkpython.fm/...
Talk Python: Talk Python rewritten in Quart (async Flask): talkpython.fm/...
Pyjion - A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR: github.com/mic...
Iron Python: ironpython.net...
Python.NET: pythonnet.gith...
The buffer protocol: docs.python.or...
Avalonia UI: avaloniaui.net...
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[@DavidTretheweydtreth]

I needed to hear the word "IronPython" in this podcast, and I'm so glad it was included! I used it 15 years ago to scrape word and excel files dynamically and massage the data into TFS Work Items. As someone who has written production code in C, C#, Python and others, I really love it when projects like this come out. I don't know if I'm sold on this style of interop but it's still really cool and has some great uses.