<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Jimmy,<div><br></div><div> I'm really interested in being able to load python modules from isolated storage, please let me know how this works out.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Ken</div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 18, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Jimmy Schementi wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Getting on this thread late ...<br><br>I've been working on a way to load Python/Ruby libraries from either a external XAP file or Isolated Storage. I should have something checked into github.com/jschementi/agdlr shortly.<br><br>Kenneth: wrappers around the Python stdlib out definitely be interesting, though possibly very difficult to produce the exact behaviors of the python libraries. .NET APIs don't map exactly to Python's, or Ruby's, so there will always be special-casing, and those can be the hardest to detect. I'd much rather find a good way to load external libraries once and only once. But, I'm not going to be the guy to stop you. =)<br><br>~js<br><br><blockquote type="cite">-----Original Message-----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: <a href="mailto:users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com">users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com</a> [<a href="mailto:users-">mailto:users-</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:bounces@lists.ironpython.com">bounces@lists.ironpython.com</a>] On Behalf Of Dan Eloff<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 2:06 PM<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: Discussion of IronPython<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Re: [IronPython] Python Standard Library in IronPython<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Kenneth Miller <<a href="mailto:xkenneth@gmail.com">xkenneth@gmail.com</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Dan,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> Thanks for the encouragement, it's much appreciated. If you don't<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mind<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">discussing off the list, I'd love to ask you some questions about<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">silverlight and see what you're doing with it.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Regards,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Ken<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nothing I'm working on is top secret. Since January I've been working<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">full time on a massively multiplayer turn-based strategy game.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Initially I was using html/ajax for the client and CPython/django for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the backend. In May I discovered the silverlight 2 beta, grabbed an<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">early IronPython 2 alpha, and started porting the client. It was a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gamble that set me back, but it's paying off now. Having Python on<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">server and client means I can share code, and I can very efficiently<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">transfer python data structures in binary format between server and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">client over HTTP. This makes new things possible. For example, at<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">startup I send 100K of binary data to the client, that's the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">equivalent of almost 2mb of JSON.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The real product is not the game itself, but the game engine as a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">platform for creating other games. I already have a group of fans very<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">serious about building a Star Wars game on the engine. If they follow<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">through on their plans it could be more visually impressive than my<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">game.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If you have any questions, just ask.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-Dan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Users mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Users@lists.ironpython.com">Users@lists.ironpython.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com">http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com</a><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Users@lists.ironpython.com">Users@lists.ironpython.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com">http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>