Chris wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > Chris wrote: > > > >> Jim Hugunin wrote: > >>> I'm extremely happy to announce that we have released IronPython 1.0 > >>> today! > >>> http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython > >> <snip> > >> > >> I'm no code guru but it sounds interesting. So can I import numpy, > >> scipy, matplotlib, wxpython etc like I do now with CPython and expect, > >> short of a few tweaks, that my code will work? > <snip> > > No, you can't. I'm not sure if there are any bridging attempts being made, > > but in this respect IronPython is the same as Jython - a completely > > different runtime which executes its own byte-code. > > > > Diez > Disappointing because, apart from python itself, what I find amazing is > the wealth of additional packages that, by association, come to be > considered part of "python". Anyway thanks for saving me from some > fruitless explorations.
People are already porting some of these libraries. Those that are written in pure python don't need to be ported, but those that rely on c extensions can be rewritten in c# or any other .NET language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
