IronPython URLs

Jeff Hardy has been at it again, and has just done releases of both IronPython.SQLite and IronPython.Zlib - ports of the Python zlib and pysqlite modules to IronPython. IronPython: SQLite and Zlib IronPython.Zlib  implements the zlib module for IronPython using ComponentAce’s zlib.net, which is a purely managed implementation of the zlib library. IronPython.Zlib is entirely managed code and works with both 32-bit and 64-bit IronPython. It passes all of the Python 2.6 zlib and gzip tests and most of the zipfile tests. IronPython.SQLite is a port of pysqlite to IronPython using C#-SQLite, which, similar to zlib.net, is a managed implementation of SQLite. Thus, IronPython.SQLite is also 100% managed code. It passes about 87% of the Python 2.6 sqlite3 tests; the remaining ones are mostly corner cases or rarely used functionality. Carl Trachte also emailed me about a Japanese blog post on using XNA with IronPython. XNA is the Microsoft game creation framework that runs on the XBox...

Another selection of blog entries and articles on IronPython and the DLR. Microsoft and Open Source A Korean translation of a presentation about the future of Open Source at Microsoft by Harry Pierson, the IronPython program manager. IronPython, and its two companion projects IronRuby and the Dynamic Language Runtime, are at the forefront of pushing the adoption and acceptance of open source in the corporate behemoth we all know and love. bridge version 0.3.8 released bridge is an open source Python library for handling XML that works with CPython and IronPython. Its homepage describes it as: " a Python XML library trying to provide a high level and clean interface for manipulating XML documents. " bridge allows you to write code dealing with XML that will run unmodified on both CPython and IronPython. Most common Python packages for dealing with XML rely on C extensions not available on IronPython (except through Ironclad ) although the FePy project contains an implementat...

A new Codeplex project, the XNA Console, allows you to debug and tweak your games whilst they are running by embedding an interactive IronPython interpreter into them: XNA Console

A Christmas eve post on putting a Python console into XNA games: Learning XNA: Put a Python in Your Game UPDATE: link updated to new location - now with video and source code available !

News is coming in from TechEd , that despite not getting top billing, IronPython is still the star of the show: IronPython May Rival C# for XNA Game Development Actually, it sounds like Mahesh is just doing the demos that Jim showed at PyCon in February (plus some Silverlight fun), and the crowds are still loving it.