TIBCO Spotfire – A Comprehensive Primer

Some useful external libraries

Sometimes, you need to import methods from IronPython or the Microsoft .NET Framework to help your script. The following table describes some libraries that you will find useful:

import clr	clr (common language runtime) is an IronPython module that provides some basic .NET functionalities, such as string methods
import re	Import this library if you want to use regular expressions
from System.Collections.Generic import Dictionary	Use this library to create dictionary objects, which are useful to store an indexed list
from System.Drawing import Color	Use this library to define your own custom colors
from System.Drawing import Font	Use this library to manipulate fonts
from System import Guid