[Python] Why does my pythonnet not load the correct dependency when loading DLL:s via...

I'm writing a Python application that uses clr 3.0.3.

I'm trying to load a DLL using System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom. My code is basically doing the following:

def load_from(dll_paths):
for dll_path in dll_paths:
print(dll_path)
assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom(dll_path)
print("")
for referenced in assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies():
print(f" {referenced}")
print("")
for loaded_assembly in System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies():
print(f" {loaded_assembly}")
print("")


The result is something like this: :

The assemblies I'm trying to load have the following directory structure:



Assembly.DLL Version 1 and Assembly.DLL Version 2 have the same name and public key but differing version numbers. When loading Assembly.DLL version 1 it properly locates and loads Dependency Version 1 but when I load Assembly.DLL version 2 it never loads Dependency Version 2

My questions is why Dependency 2 is never loaded? If the CLR can't locate Dependency 2 when running LoadFrom, why doesn't it throw an exception? When running code in Assembly 2 it attempts to reference stuff in Dependency 1 which produces an exception at runtime since they are incompatible.

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