Script arguments and Embedded IronPython

Question

I have an embedded scripting engine in my C# application that uses IronPython 2. I create the Python runtime and add a few classes to the global namespace so that the script

Answer 1

When you create the engine, you can add an "Arguments" option the contains your arguments:

IDictionary options = new Dictionary();
options["Arguments"] = new [] { "foo", "bar" };
_engine = Python.CreateEngine(options);

Now sys.argv will contain ["foo", "bar"].

You can set options["Arguments"] to anything that implements ICollection.