Python on Android with Mono and the DLR

Koushik Dutta has been working on porting Mono to the Android mobile platform, including a bridge that allows you to call into the Java APIs from C# and other Mono supported languages.

Of course through the Dynamic Language Runtime, other Mono supported languages includes IronPython and IronRuby:
After copying the necessary DLLs over to the phone, I was able to run the simple ipy.exe console application that comes with the DLR source code. The neat thing I discovered while perusing through the documentation is that IronRuby and IronPython are actually compiled into CIL byte code and thus eventually native code! Anyhow, as you can see, IronPython is working dandily on the phone.

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