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@Metadorius Metadorius commented Mar 27, 2026 •
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What does this implement/fix? Explain your changes.

  • Bundles all required by net461 assemblies
  • Adds an AssemblyResolver to resolve them, because something prevents that and .config is not really accessible
  • Adds a PyInstaller hook to copy all those files properly, overshadowing the contrib repo hook which only copied Python.Runtime.dll

Does this close any currently open issues?

Closes #2695

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Requires merge of pythonnet/clr-loader#114

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@filmor tested this with my end users, it indeed works just fine
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Metadorius marked this pull request as ready for review March 30, 2026 20:48
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Are any tests expected for this PR?
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My bad, I should've checked the behavior on .NET Core too. @filmor could you please approve the workflows to run again?
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Bump, just need tests to be approved to run.
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Is there any way I can help speed up the review/merge?
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Metadorius commented May 3, 2026

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@filmor sorry for bothering, any ETA on the merge?
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Two issues:

  1. The new csproj is missing from the manifest, I'll fix that.
  2. This increases the wheel size substantially. Seeing that you seem to be the only one who needs this, would it work for you if our distributed wheels were still built directly and you could build your own wheel with an environment variable for internal distribution? Do you even need the wheels?
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filmor force-pushed the feature/net461 branch from 2d829a0 to 92e5912 Compare May 5, 2026 15:50
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  1. Thanks for the help, overlooked this one.

  2. The wheels are a preferred choice. If it's a critical thing, I can of course point uv to git, however, it's more trouble than just pre-built wheels, so I'd be happy if it was available on pypi. For example, uv caching caused issues with tag-based versioning when I was building the packages from source and did a partial fork, which cost me some hours figuring out what the issue was. I am sure there are other hidden nuances like this one.

    (I was sure that there's an ability to ship "variants" of a wheel, but turns out it was just extra packages via package[extra] syntax. Not sure if it's possible to have somehting like pythonnet[net461], it looks like not).

    Initialize() crash from .NET Framework application #2205 SerializationException when PythonEngine.Shutdown() #2221 Cannot import pandas in pythonnet #2222 python lambda doesn't match expression lambda #2425 seem all to be mentioning 4.6.1 in environment and are past 3.0. Likely not every user submits an issue, yet alone a PR to fix the issue, so I don't think I am the only one; there are probably other users who would benefit from this.

    As for the size increase - I checked, and the size seems to be increased from 0.2 MB to 1.6 MB. I feel like on an absolute scale even after increase that's negligible in 2026. Popular packages like numpy, pandas, cryptography are all multple megabytes worth, like 2-10 MB, and I've never heard this to be a problem.
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Well, I don't want to join the large-package-size cohort if not necessary. Wheel variants don't exist, yet (there is an open PEP on this), otherwise that would have been the preferred way.

I think I will simply add a Windows wheel build that includes the .NET 4.6, then at least we don't carry all of the shim DLLs around on other platforms.

@lostmsu, what is your take on this?
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I feel like I am missing something, is 1.6 MB really that large? to me it looks like an increase from microscopic to just small 🤔

That works too, of course, just wondering if there's really a point in keeping it separate.
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Metadorius and others added 3 commits May 5, 2026 21:53
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Support .NET Framework 4.6.1
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Add a PyInstaller hook to handle files correctly in PyInstaller
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Build .NET 4.6 support conditionally
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filmor force-pushed the feature/net461 branch from ddbb54f to 19dc42e Compare May 5, 2026 19:53
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filmor merged commit 0238387 into pythonnet:master May 5, 2026
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Default on Windows and also only supported there. Must be at least version
4.6.1, with 4.7.2 or later recommended.
4.6.1, with 4.7.2 or later recommended. For .NET 4.6 support, the wheel has
to be built with the environment variable `PYTHONNET_BUILD_NET46_SUPPORT=1`.

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seems to be outdated now, judging by uv build --wheel -C="--global-option=--net46-support" below

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Can't build with .NET Framework 4.6.1 support on Windows x86-64 #2715
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Bump pythonnet from 3.0.5 to 3.1.0 zcsizmadia/PyDotNet#12
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chore: Bump pythonnet from 3.0.5 to 3.1.0 apache/arrow-dotnet#364
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chore: Bump pythonnet from 3.0.5 to 3.1.0 (#364)
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Updated [pythonnet](https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet) from 3.0.5
to 3.1.0.

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<summary>Release notes</summary>

_Sourced from [pythonnet's
releases](https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet/releases)._

## 3.1.0

## What's Changed
* ci: properly exclude job by @​RobPasMue in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2542
* `__delitem__` for `IList<T>` and `IDictionary<K,V>` by @​lostmsu in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2533
* Fix docs workflow by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2584
* Drop EOLd Python versions by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2632
* Bump setuptools and adjust license information by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2633
* Minimal .NET 8 usage changes by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2634
* Drop performance tests by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2636
* Properly detect availability of BinaryFormatter by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2639
* Use last compiler toolset version that support .NET 8 by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2640
* Add dependabot file by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2642
* Use official ARM runners by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2641
* Bump actions/upload-pages-artifact from 3 to 4 by @​dependabot[bot] in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2644
* Bump actions/setup-python from 2 to 6 by @​dependabot[bot] in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2646
* Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 5 by @​dependabot[bot] in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2648
* Bump actions/setup-dotnet from 1 to 5 by @​dependabot[bot] in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2645
* Use uv and derive as much as possible from the environment, if
available by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2652
* Fixes for the uv CI by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2654
* Bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 6 to 7 by @​dependabot[bot] in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2656
* Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 by @​dependabot[bot] in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2663
* Ensure that the tests work even if BinaryFormatter is not available by
@​filmor in pythonnet/pythonnet#2638
* Bump NUnit3TestAdapter from 5.2.0 to 6.0.0 by @​dependabot[bot] in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2667
* Fix line endings by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2668
* Switch to .NET SDK 10 by @​lostmsu in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2684
* Python 3.14 by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2611
* CI Improvements by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2669
* Bump System.Reflection.Emit from 4.3.0 to 4.7.0 by @​dependabot[bot]
in pythonnet/pythonnet#2694
* Bump pytest from 9.0.2 to 9.0.3 in the uv group across 1 directory by
@​dependabot[bot] in pythonnet/pythonnet#2705
* CI Improvements by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2707
* Fix method memleak test by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2708
* Bump actions/upload-pages-artifact from 4 to 5 by @​dependabot[bot] in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2709
* Update furo requirement from >=2022.9.15 to >=2025.12.19 by
@​dependabot[bot] in pythonnet/pythonnet#2711
* Move documentation deps to pyproject.toml by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2714
* Support .NET Framework 4.6.1 by @​Metadorius in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2701
* Fix wheel tags by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2716
* Name missing from __all__ on re-import by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2717
* Add context manager protocol for .NET IDisposable types by
@​den-run-ai in pythonnet/pythonnet#2568
* Fix MethodBinding/OverloadMapper memory leak (#​691) by
@​greateggsgreg in pythonnet/pythonnet#2719
* Bump urllib3 from 2.6.3 to 2.7.0 in the uv group across 1 directory by
@​dependabot[bot] in pythonnet/pythonnet#2723
* Update NUnit by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2724
* Silence compile-time warnings by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2725
* Implement support for DLR get/set by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2706
* Bump idna from 3.13 to 3.15 in the uv group across 1 directory by
@​dependabot[bot] in pythonnet/pythonnet#2726

## New Contributors
* @​RobPasMue made their first contribution in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2542
* @​dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2644
* @​Metadorius made their first contribution in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2701

**Full Changelog**:
pythonnet/pythonnet@v3.0.5...v3.1.0

## 3.1.0-rc1

## What's Changed
* CI Improvements by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2669
* Bump System.Reflection.Emit from 4.3.0 to 4.7.0 by @​dependabot[bot]
in pythonnet/pythonnet#2694
* Bump pytest from 9.0.2 to 9.0.3 in the uv group across 1 directory by
@​dependabot[bot] in pythonnet/pythonnet#2705
* CI Improvements by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2707
* Fix method memleak test by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2708
* Bump actions/upload-pages-artifact from 4 to 5 by @​dependabot[bot] in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2709
* Update furo requirement from >=2022.9.15 to >=2025.12.19 by
@​dependabot[bot] in pythonnet/pythonnet#2711
* Move documentation deps to pyproject.toml by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2714
* Support .NET Framework 4.6.1 by @​Metadorius in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2701
* Fix wheel tags by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2716
* Name missing from __all__ on re-import by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2717
* Add context manager protocol for .NET IDisposable types by
@​den-run-ai in pythonnet/pythonnet#2568
* Fix MethodBinding/OverloadMapper memory leak (#​691) by
@​greateggsgreg in pythonnet/pythonnet#2719
* Bump urllib3 from 2.6.3 to 2.7.0 in the uv group across 1 directory by
@​dependabot[bot] in pythonnet/pythonnet#2723
* Update NUnit by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2724
* Silence compile-time warnings by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2725
* Implement support for DLR get/set by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2706

## New Contributors
* @​Metadorius made their first contribution in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2701

**Full Changelog**:
pythonnet/pythonnet@v3.1.0-rc0...v3.1.0-rc1

## 3.1.0-rc0

## What's Changed
* ci: properly exclude job by @​RobPasMue in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2542
* `__delitem__` for `IList<T>` and `IDictionary<K,V>` by @​lostmsu in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2533
* Fix docs workflow by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2584
* Drop EOLd Python versions by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2632
* Bump setuptools and adjust license information by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2633
* Minimal .NET 8 usage changes by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2634
* Drop performance tests by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2636
* Properly detect availability of BinaryFormatter by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2639
* Use last compiler toolset version that support .NET 8 by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2640
* Add dependabot file by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2642
* Use official ARM runners by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2641
* Use uv and derive as much as possible from the environment, if
available by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2652
* Fixes for the uv CI by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2654
* Ensure that the tests work even if BinaryFormatter is not available by
@​filmor in pythonnet/pythonnet#2638
* Fix line endings by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2668
* Switch to .NET SDK 10 by @​lostmsu in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2684
* Python 3.14 by @​filmor in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2611

## New Contributors
* @​RobPasMue made their first contribution in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2542
* @​dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in
pythonnet/pythonnet#2644

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pythonnet/pythonnet@v3.0.5...v3.1.0-rc0

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