> "Mark Hammond" <MarkH@ActiveState.com> writes: > > > Sorry for the delay in responding to this stuff - Im at the MS PDC, and > > demoing a new Python compiler that I'm suddenly allowed to > talk about - but > > that isnt the point of this mail :-] > > ? I'm curious now! There is a Python compiler available for the Microsoft .NET framework. Much of the press will have details on this emerging. A CNET article can be found at http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2240702.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni This new compiler could be compared, conceptually, with JPython - it is a completely new implementation of Python. It has a compiler that generates native Windows .DLL/.EXE files. It uses a runtime that consists of a few thousand lines of C# (C-Sharp) code. The Python programs can be debugged at the source level with Visual Studio 7, as well as stand-alone debuggers for this environment. Python can sub-class VB or C# classes, and vice-versa. Unfortunately, there will not be a public release of their SDK for a couple of months - so the only people able to use this compiler are people who attended the PDC, and hence have the pre-beta SDK on their conference CDs. The compiler is looking pretty reasonable. pystone.py (amongst others, of course) compiles and runs. Im not going to tell you the results yet, 'cos they arent too good ;-) However, this should be quite exciting for the Python community. The general feel of the conference here is that the MS .NET technology is exciting and a good thing. I predict that the Windows community will embrace this technology, and having Python be a first-class citizen is a good thing! It _is_ a radical change, so I predict it wont be really significant on windows for a couple of years yet. Future work on this compiler will be under the ActiveState banner. However, the compiler and the runtime are all open source. The compiler is written in CPython, and uses win32com to get at the Reflection::Emit APIs provided by .NET. All the existing work has been done mainly by me, with some code and advice from Greg. Now the NDA is lifted, I hope (some of) the Python community will get behind this, and take advantage of the open-sourceness of the compiler and runtime, and help us turn this into an excellent language for this environment. All good stuff! Mark.
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