can you typecast a .NET object in IronPython?

Question

I\'m interfacing with a .NET API in IronPython. The API is returning an object of the wrong type (some kind of generic object). I suspect that the problem is not showing up

Answer 1

clr.Convert doesnt exist in IronPython 2.0 . This is not a solution to typecast a .NET object in IronPython?, but it's a workaround to convert the data if you really need it to use it from IronPython

Create a class like this in VB.NET and compile it into a DLL

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic

    Public Class MyConvert

        Shared Function converttype(ByVal value As String) As Integer
            Return CInt(value)
        End Function

    End Class

Then in IronPython you do

clr.AddReference('MyConvert')
from MyConvert import converttype         
converted_value = converttype("2.0")