Can you use LINQ types and extension methods in IronPython?

Question

Is it possible to use the LINQ types and extension methods in IronPython?

If so how? And also is there often more pythonic to do the same thing?

Answer 1

Some of the things you'd do with LINQ can be done with list comprehensions:

[myFunc(i) for i in numbers if i > 3]

Or you can use map, reduce, and filter:

map(myFunc, filter(lambda x: x > 3, numbers))

But list comprehensions are much more "Pythonic" than using the functional programming constructs. For reducing things, consider using "".join or sum. And you can check the truth value of entire iterables by using any and all

Just remember these translations:

Select -> map
Where -> filter
Aggregate -> reduce

And you'll be well on your way!