Hi Martin, Thanks! It's great to hear you're planning to support both. I'm planning to jot down my experience with Iron Python and put it up in my site, but to make this more useful for .NET developers, I want to focus on "you have a concept. you express it this way in C#. now, here's how you express it in Python"
It was at that point that I started asking myself this question (i.e.: whether to take approach a or b). I guess for the moment I'll just focus on doing stuff with .NET library using Python then, and probably update the articles later when 1.0 has come out. I'm really looking forward to this release! Cheers, Ray > > From: Martin Maly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Discussion of IronPython" > <users-ironpython.com@lists.ironpython.com> > Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:53:35 -0700 > Subject: RE: [IronPython] Iron Python Library Usage > > Hi Ray, > > Thanks for your compliments, we are happy that you > find IronPython > useful. > > You are right, there are many built-in modules > missing or incomplete in > IronPython 0.9. > Our focus for 0.9 was interoperability with .Net and > between 0.9 and 1.0 > we are going to invest a lot into making CPython and > IronPython > compatible in terms of using the same libraries, > making sure that > CPython regression test suite runs well on > IronPython, that programs > written in Python language that run well on CPython > run also on > IronPython. > > Out of your two "a" and "b" scenarios, we are > planning on providing both > and I hope we succeed. You bring up a good point > with strings. If I am a > .Net programmer and want to use string, I may want > to see the .Net > methods on the string object, i.e: > > "hi".ToUpper() > > whereas a Python programmer coming to IronPython > could very well prefer > to see the standard Python way: > > "hi".upper() > > It is not obvious how to approach this, but > definitely our goal is to > make sure that we stay true to the Python lanugage > and its libraries and > as I said, it is our focus from now on to make > progress on the libraries > and built-in modules etc. > > I hope this answers your question, > > Martin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ users-ironpython.com mailing list users-ironpython.com@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
