Consuming Extension Methods in IronPython

Extension methods are a feature of .NET 3 that allows you to add methods to existing types. These are effectively static methods, but are called as if they were instance methods on the extended type.

Saveen Reddy has a blog entry on using these methods from IronPython.

• Consuming Extension Methods in IronPython
  

  One of my projects implemented in C# makes frequent use of extension methods. Recently I started using IronPython to script that project and what I learned is that consuming those extension methods in C# is straightforward but with IronPython some extra work is involved.

It turns out to be harder than it should be...