IronPython URLs

IronPython 2.0 Alpha 2 has just been released: IronPython 2.0 Alpha 2 on Codeplex This release has various changes, but is not (yet) compatible with Silverlight as both products are changing rapidly at the moment. Hopefully IronPython 1.1.1 will be following shortly...

Just after I discovered FBConsole 0.6 comes, uhm... FBConsole 0.7: FBConsole 0.7.0 Released Interestingly that announcement on Firebird news uses exactly the same wording from the post I made a few days ago. Maybe they think I understand Japanese? Anyway "FBConsole is an IronPython and Windows Forms console for working with the Firebird database ".

At the recent Mix conference in the US, Jim Hugunin and John Lam did a demonstration of Silverlight and the DLR. This is an hour long video showing off Silverlight, IronPython, IronRuby and explaining how long it fits together: Mix Sessions Site Direct Link to the Silverlight and the DLR Video

Miguel de Icaza shows off some desklets that are part of the Mono Silverlight implementation (Moonlight), with several mentions of IronPython and how it fits in: Hack week: Moonlight Desklets It seems like the Mono folks are using Moonlight to implement some really cool tools...

So is this crazy or brilliant? Either way, Mitch Barnett is doing it: Web Based Distributed Programming IDE for IronPython

Antonio Cuni has just announced CarbonPython: CarbonPython - aka C# Considered Harmful CarbonPython is an RPython compiler for .NET, which can statically compile a subset of Python (Restricted Python) . The resulting assemblies can be used from IronPython and C#. You can also read my summary of the project.

I'm not entirely sure what this is, but it would appear to be an IronPython and Windows Forms console for working with the Firebird database : FBConsole 0.6

Not got enough Python on .NET? The Boo (a Python inspired language) cookbook shows how to use IronPython from Boo: Using IronPython from Boo

Software Industrialization continues his exploration of web based IronPython applications with: A Web Based Interactive Console for IronPython

The Mono team have made an enormous amount of progress in implementing their version of Silverlight, Moonlight . Miguel de Icaza talks about what they have done so far, and how they got there in: Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days

Mohammed Tayseer has just announced the SilverKey demo day, to be held in Egypt on July 7th: SilverKey Demo Day The developer day will focus on both static and dynamic languages on .NET.

Navtej Singh reports on his almost successful experiments with Mohamed Sharaf's encryption helper library: MSSecurityLibrary and IronPython

New additions to the IronPython Cookbook include: Reading CSV Files with a Fast Csv Reader Deploying ironPython Scripts by Dodiggitydag (!) Introduction to Interop by Seo Sanghyeon Folder Backup Script also by Dodiggitydag; it uses the open source SharpZipLib The Windows Forms SaveFileDialog

Guido has accepted a patch to the Python standard library inspect module as acceptable for inclusion in Python: Inspect Patch for IronPython (and Jython?) Compatibility The patch originates from the FePy project and could be in Python 2.6, and even the next bugfix release of 2.5. Note that Guido has only agreed that it can be applied, it hasn't actually happened yet... It is however, a good (if small) example of IronPython feeding back into CPython. This patch benefits other alternative implementations of Python as well as IronPython

Bill Thorp continues his attempts to get TileCache working with IronPython. Now he discovers that the lack of os.access is part of the problem, but that it is available in FePy . Unfortunately FePy doesn't yet support IronPython 2 - so the struggle isn't over yet... Python vs IronPython Round 2

As well as the demos from the IronPython TechEd talks, there are now some videos online: Dev315 - IronPython and Dynamic Languages on .NET Web324 - Dynamic Languages on the Web

Bill Thorp reports on his abortive attempts to get TileCache to work with IronPython: Python vs IronPython: TileCache Perhaps the lazy web can help him out...

Mahesh has posted links to the demos he showed at TechEd: IronPython TechEd Demos These include Robotics, ASP, Web services and Powershell demos.

Robert Pickering does some benchmarking: F# versus IronPython Unsurpisingly F# is faster than IronPython. Something that will also be no surprise, C# is more verbose than both IronPython and F#. What might come as a surprise is that F# is almost as terse as Python.

Seo reports on switching the FePy makefile to NAnt : NAnt build file for IronPython This was inspired by the changes in IronPython 2, but Seo is happy with the switch and NAnt works well with Mono.