I think your impression is right. But if there are C-based Python extensions
in use (these would have a .pyd file extension under Windows), you might
have some difficulty making them work. For desktop use, there's a project
called IronClad (http://code.google.com/p/ironclad/) that provides pretty
good support for the use of C extensions from within IronPython. But this
won't help for Silverlight, where you can't run native code in the sandbox.
You'd need to rewrite the C extensions in a managed language like C# (or
IronPython :).
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:22 AM, David Jensen davidjen...@usa.net wrote:
Someone who worked with a person who was heavily using AI related
technologies
for stock trading (possibly neural networks and related(genetic)) claimed
this
person said IronPython could not use the AI stuff because it was written in
Cpython. However, my impression is that the very large majority of python
libraries are python source code and not compiled C, etc. programs (dll,
etc.). Furthermore, those C libraries may also have C source.
Silverlight will be very powerful when it catches on. I would assume the
vast
majority of Cpython would run in it.
David Jensen
davidjen...@usa.net
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