Hi Matt,

First and foremost let me say to you how impressed I am with the converter feature. Great job!

I was skeptical at first but decided to put it to a tough test (in my opinion): convert a C# program with 6,779 lines of code to IronPython (IP). The results were so encouraging...after spending some 3 hours or so adjusting the convertion, I had an IronPython version of the program with 3,955 working just right.

It would have taken an hour or so less if it were not for the fact that I had a XML settings file that I serialized and de-serialized using serialization attributes...and declarative attributes do not yet work on IronPython. I had to substitute that for the  settings file techinque in the IronPython cookbook site (with minor adaptations).

But back to the converter and in the spirit of giving you some feedback for the continuing improvement of it (please continue with this great project!), here are some issues that I encountered and that required adjustments:

1) Dictionary and List declarations did not work too well.

Here is the original declaration in C#:

Dictionary<string, string> record = new Dictionary<string,string>();

List<string> methods = new List<string>();

And here are the resulting IP declarations:

record = Dictionary()

methods = List()

I fixed this by making the following adjustments in the IP declarations:

record = Dictionary[str,str]()

methods = List[str]()

So, no biggie, but something to keep in mind...

2) A switch statement with  break did not convert correctly to IP.

Here is the a piece of the switch statement in C#:

switch (dtype)

{

   case "1": record.Add("FirstPostingDay", day);

     break;

   case "2": record.Add("AcceptedDay", day);

     break;

...

Here is the resulting IP if-else stements:

if dtype == "1":

self._record.Add("FirstPostingDay", day)

break

elif dtype == "2":

self._record.Add("AcceptedDay", day)

break

...

The fix was easy, just to remove the break statements in IP, but I only found it when I ran the program against certain cases...so, one thing to watch out for in the Converter although it might prove difficult to programmatically decide whether the break statement is "legitimate".

3) While loop with assignment did not convert right?

Here is the while loop in C#:

while ((uid = file.ReadLine()) != null)

{

ct++;

uids.Add(uid);

}

Here is the IP equivalent:

while (uid = file.ReadLine()) != None:

ct += 1

uids.Add(uid)

For me, the IP interpreter did not like the assignment inside the While loop...and I think Python does not allow it...but I may be wrong...I am not a Python expert...I am more of a .NET developer scripting .NET in IronPython.

So, this is basically what I can remember that gave me trouble. I hope this helps out. Again, I am nothing but impressed with the job you guys did. Keep it up!

Thanks!

Nivaldo Fernandes