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IronPython 1.0 released
Microsoft has released IronPython 1.0, an implementation of the Python language for .NET. Its goal is to complement or supplement C# and VB.NET coding efforts, providing a fast scripting language running on the CLR.
Released on the CodePlex site, this scripting language is said to be largely compatible with standard Python implementations. In the area of garbage collection the Microsoft crew has deliberately set out to change things, hoping to improve on this feature implementation. A list of differences from CPython is available.
The language includes an interactive interpreter with dynamic compilation. Programmer Jim Hugunin, who created Jython, a Java version of Python, led the three year effort to create Iron Python, which began outside Microsoft. Hugunin freely admits that his first motivation in taking on the project was to prove performance deficiencies in Microsoft’s CLR.
I wanted to understand how Microsoft could have screwed up so badly that the CLR was a worse platform for dynamic languages than the JVM. My plan was to take a couple of weeks to build a prototype implementation of Python on the CLR and then to use that work to write a short pithy article called, "Why the CLR is a terrible platform for dynamic languages".
Instead, he found that Python could run well on the CLR – sometimes even faster than a C-based implementation. Now, Hugunin says:
IronPython is about bringing together two worlds. The key value in IronPython is that it is both a true implementation of Python and is seamlessly integrated with the .NET platform.
What do you think? Is a new scripting language needed in the .NET tool box?
IronPython Links
Download information - Codeplex
Differences to CPython - Codeplex
Jim Hugunin blog MSDN
Iron Python commentary - Scott Gu site, ASP Weblogs
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July 29, 2004 Noted languages developer Jim Hugunin has released version 0.6 of IronPython, an open-source (licensed under the Common Public License) CLR implementation of the Python programming language, even as he joins the CLR team at Microsoft. Hugunin is probably best well-known for his work in implementing the AspectJ programming language while working for the Xerox PARC research center.
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April 02, 2004 @ 06:01 PM It would be interesting to compare the performance of IronPython (CLR) and Jython (JVM). On average, the PyStone benchmark shows IronPython is %150 faster ...
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Gr8 News
Congrats Jim, this is great news that MSFT has delivered a fine scripting language like Python on to CLR. This is also a great news for many Python programmers who would get access to the power .Net framework.
I hope the IronPython team takes enough initiative to fill in some pages on MSDN with articles, so that people can adopt IronPython.
For the enthusiasts, http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_Python.shtml
has some tutorials of IronPython (its been around for a while).
Cheers,
Srikanth.
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Re: IronPython 1.0 released
Congratulations ! I've been monitoring this project for months, and I already use IronPython (RC1) to script one of my product. Hope there wasn't much change in the script engine, just bug fixes :)
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