IronPython URLs

PyCon 2010 , the annual international Python conference is coming soon (February 17th 2010 in Atlanta US). The schedule of talks is now up, and as usual there are several IronPython related talks . 67. IronPython Tooling  By Dino Veihland, core IronPython developer: One of the most popular requests for the IronPython team is tooling support. During this talk I’ll show you some of the existing tools available to help create IronPython applications. I’ll also look at the latest IronPython features which can help you debug, profile and improve your applications. I’ll also compare and contrast these with the solutions available for CPython that you may already be familiar with. 71. Python in the Browser By Jimmy Schementi (Microsoft program manager for IronPython / IronRuby Silverlight integration): You write your server code in Python because you want to. You write your browser code in JavaScript because you have to. But with IronPython and Silverlight, you can write your brows...

IronPython is written in C# and is an implementation of the Python programming language that runs natively on the .NET framework with full access to .NET libraries. It isn't however the only way of using Python with .NET. One disadvantage of IronPython is that unless you are using Ironclad you can't use Python C extensions with IronPython, One alternative is Python.NET . This is a version of CPython (the normal implementation of Python) which also has integration with the .NET framework. As you would expect you can use Python C extensions with Python.NET, but when you use .NET objects you aren't using them natively but are using a proxied or copied version instead. There is also a little known third option: PyPy.NET . PyPy is an extremely interesting project - it is both an interpreter compiler toolchain, allowing you to write interpreters for dynamic languages in a high level static language called RPython which is a subset of Python, and a Python interpreter written in R...

At the recent PyPy Sprint they worked on the integration of 'pypy-cli' with the .NET framework. They are implementing a clr module that provides compatibility with the way IronPython (and also Python.NET) do things. You can now add references to assemblies and import (and use) .NET classes. PyPy.NET Goes Windows Forms Automatic handling of delegates isn't implemented, so you can't yet use events. Like much of PyPy, it is very exciting and nearly useful...