Re: IronPython 1.0 Beta 7 Released

2006-05-25 Thread Ravi Teja
> Can you recommend a book or a link for a person learning Python on > Windows who does not yet know C# or .NET? Since Python is cross-platform, any Python book will do. If you need to do MS Windows specific programming (COM and OLE automation, Windows Services etc), you can use Mark Hammond's "Py

Re: IronPython 1.0 Beta 7 Released

2006-05-25 Thread Ravi Teja
> > Also, IronPython cannot access CPython libraries. So it cannot be used > > as a drop-in replacement for CPython in most non-trivial apps. Python > > for .NET however allows you to both use both CPython and .NET > > libraries. > > It will be able to access the standard libraries, as long as they

Re: IronPython 1.0 Beta 7 Released

2006-05-25 Thread Luis M. González
Ravi Teja wrote: > Also, IronPython cannot access CPython libraries. So it cannot be used > as a drop-in replacement for CPython in most non-trivial apps. Python > for .NET however allows you to both use both CPython and .NET > libraries. It will be able to access the standard libraries, as long a

Re: IronPython 1.0 Beta 7 Released

2006-05-25 Thread Luis M. González
Ravi Teja wrote: > Also, IronPython cannot access CPython libraries. So it cannot be used > as a drop-in replacement for CPython in most non-trivial apps. Python > for .NET however allows you to both use both CPython and .NET > libraries. It will be able to access the standard libraries, as long a

Re: IronPython 1.0 Beta 7 Released

2006-05-25 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Can you recommend a book or a link for a person learning Python on Windows who does not yet know C# or .NET? Thanks, rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IronPython 1.0 Beta 7 Released

2006-05-24 Thread Ravi Teja
Also, IronPython cannot access CPython libraries. So it cannot be used as a drop-in replacement for CPython in most non-trivial apps. Python for .NET however allows you to both use both CPython and .NET libraries. > Ironpython is not a first class .NET language. > That means that although you can

Re: IronPython 1.0 Beta 7 Released

2006-05-24 Thread Luis M. González
Well, basically, ironpython is to .NET what jython is to JAVA. It is a faithful implementation of the python language, written in c#, created to run on and take full advantage of the .NET framework. That means that you have access to all the available libraries of the .NET framework and you can us

Re: IronPython 1.0 Beta 7 Released

2006-05-24 Thread sam
vbgunz: When you download IronPython,the tutorial directory has some examples of interfacing With the .NET environment i.e.: 1: IronPython -> C# 2: C# -> IronPython 3: IronPython -> VB 4: VB -> IronPython Sam Schulenburg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IronPython 1.0 Beta 7 Released

2006-05-24 Thread vbgunz
maybe I am a bit ignorant and love living in the bliss of it and maybe I am a bit tired on the subject but may I ask you a question? if i decided to use IronPython for strict cPython work, is this possible? probably dumb when I can use cPython but is it still possible in case maybe sometime down th

IronPython 1.0 Beta 7 Released

2006-05-24 Thread Luis M. González
Check it out: http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=ad7acff7-ab1e-4bcb-99c0-57ac5a3a9742 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list