Thank you for these good ideas! I'm going to try it. My goal is to use the Natural Language Toolkit in Clojure. I also posted the same question here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2129253/clojure-jython-interop
Rob On Jan 24, 7:08 pm, Eric Lavigne <lavigne.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone has tried somehow calling Jython functions > > from within Clojure, and how you went about doing this if so. I have > > not used Jython, but I would imagine the Jython interpreter can be > > invoked in the same way as any other java code, and Python programs > > can be run within it. However I wonder if it would be possible to > > somehow call individual python functions from Clojure. Like I said, I > > have not tried this yet, so it might actually be straightforward and > > obvious. I'm just wondering if anyone has tried doing this. > > I haven't tried it, but the strategies for executing Jython code from > Java should work at least as well from Clojure. There are two > approaches. > > One approach is to compile the Jython code into a class file. This > requires some work on the Python side (similar to using gen-class in > Clojure so that Clojure code can be called from Java), and the Python > class of interest can't use multiple-inheritance. This approach is > discussed in the section called "How to create Jython classes callable > from Java programs" athttp://www.seanet.com/~bugbee/python/jython4.html > > Another approach is to invoke the Jython interpreter as you suggested, > load a Python script, and ask the interpreter to evaluate a function > for you. An example can be found in this > page:http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/22390-executing-jython-function... > > Additional discussion about the second approach can be found in the > section called "How to run Python programs from Java" > athttp://www.seanet.com/~bugbee/python/jython4.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
