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IronPython 2.6.1 will bring some nice performance improvements and some big Unicode compatibility improvements to IronPython 2.6. The release candidate of SharpDevelop (Windows IDE with superlative support for IronPython) includes support for the IronPython 2.6.1 release candidate. SharpDevelop 3.2 RC 1 The first release candidate for SharpDevelop 3.2 comes with updated language support, fixes to various features (eg C# <-> VB.NET conversion), as well as improvements you have asked for in our forums. The highlights: IronRuby 1.0 RC2 support IronPython 2.6.1 RC1 support Microsoft F#, February 2010 CTP support SHFB 1.8.0.3 support SDR: Absolute and relative filenames for images SDR: Zoom in Report Viewer

PyCon 2010 was great fun, and included several talks on or including IronPython. Python in the Browser This is Jimmy Schementi's write-up of his talk on using Python in the Browser, with links to the video and slides: You, the Python developer, use Python because you want to, but in the browser you use JavaScript because you think you have to. With IronPython you can write browser code in Python. I’ll only begin to answer "what can the browser bring to Python?" and "what can Python bring to the browser?" in this short overview; examples will be very simple (with the exception of a few flashy ones) to make sure you can get started immediately. IronPython Tooling The video of Dino Veihland's talk on the new integration of IronPython with Visual Studio 2010. The integration, which works standalone with the Visual Studio extensibility shell or integrated into VS 2010, is alpha quality - but has lots of nice features for IronPython development. It includes

Jeff Hardy is an IronPython MVP and a Python community member who has invested a lot of time in getting standard Python libraries available for IronPython. Some of his recent work has been with both Django and the zlib module . It's been a while since we've reported on his work, so this post gets us up to date with what Jeff has been working on: IronPython.Zlib The zlib module is a C extension for Python. Because it is in the Python standard library it is used by many other libraries, like setuptools, making it an important part of the Python infrastructure. Unfortunately not all of the standard library C extensions have been ported to IronPython. The problem of C extensions is one of the major drawbacks of alternative implementations of Python; both Jython and PyPy have the same problem. Even if your code is 'pure-Python' it may not run on alternative implementations if it uses C extensions. For IronPython one solution is to use Ironclad , an open source project cr

This article, written by Jonathan Hartley, was originally published in the Python Magazine. Acceptance Testing .NET Applications using IronPython Unit tests demonstrate to developers that individual functions and classes work as expected. Acceptance tests are an orthogonal complement to this. They verify to everybody, including managers and clients, that features they understand and care about are completed and working correctly. They also prove that the system as a whole is correctly integrated and that no regressions have occurred. Resolver Systems is developing a .NET desktop spreadsheet application, Resolver One, for which we have accumulated an acceptance testing framework. This framework uses Python’s standard unittest module, and is executed using IronPython. While Resolver One is written in IronPython, this technique allows IronPython tests to interact with product code written in any .NET language. This article describes the principles of this IronPython acceptance test

March 9th (that's tomorrow at the time of typing) IronPython in Action is the Manning deal of the day. This is a one day offer with a special discount. You can get the discount by buying IronPython in Action from the Manning website and using the discount code dotd0310tw. It isn't only IronPython in Action that is on offer, you can also get Quick Python by Vern Ceder.