Introduction to IronPython, Python for .NET Programmers and Dark Corners of IronPython

I've written three new articles on IronPython and put them up on my website. The first two are for developers new to Python or to IronPython whilst the third will be useful to anyone developing with IronPython whatever their programming background.
Just getting started with IronPython or wondering why you should be interested? This article introduces IronPython, explains how it came into existence and some of its more common use cases. The article also shows the basic IronPython and .NET integration with the interactive interpreter. The IronPython interactive interpreter is a great way to learn plus a useful tool for working with the .NET framework. The article even shows how the Dynamic Language Runtime allows languages to interoperate by using a Ruby library (through IronRuby) from IronPython.
An introduction to the Python programming language for programmers interested in IronPython. It covers the basic syntax and semantics and touches on how dynamic languages are different to statically typed languages. It also goes through the major programming styles possible with Python: interactive, scripting, procedural, functional, object oriented and metaprogramming.
The IronPython team have done a very good job of integrating Python and the .NET framework without having to change Python or introduce new syntax. Despite this there are various areas where you need to know some IronPython specific information; previous experience of Python or C# alone will not be enough.

This article contains a lot of the nitty gritty details of how to use Python the language to integrate with the underlying .NET framework.

A fourth article of mine has also gone online, although without any action - or even knowledge - on my part. An extract from chapter 8 of IronPython in Action has been posted to Developer Zone. This is the section on metaprogramming, introducing and explaining metaclasses in Python:

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