Re: jython

[D-Man <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:44:33AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
| To add to the multiple python versions confusion:
| jython recently appeared in debian.
| To make things correctly, it should be possible to
| use it as replacement of python, and also it should be 
| possible to have both python and jython installed 
| simultaneously.
| 
| and, of course, C modules and many pure python scripts do
| _not_ work with jython, so alternatives are out of question.
| (well, since nobody with a sense of reality would want
| to use jython as a replacement of python, not having
| it available as an alterantive of python is not such a big problem)

And, of course, many programs that are written with the intent of
being used with Jython probably use Java classes or Swing which
obviously don't work with CPython.

Most pure python scripts/programs should work as long as they don't
depend on  a) C extensions,  b) os module specific stuff (much of that
is inaccessible from Java),  and c) depend on implementation-specific
details that are not specified in the Ref Man.

-D