<div>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 (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/ironclad/">http://code.google.com/p/ironclad/</a>) 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 :).<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:22 AM, David Jensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidjensen@usa.net">davidjensen@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Someone who worked with a person who was heavily using AI related technologies<br>for stock trading (possibly neural networks and related(genetic)) claimed this<br>
person said IronPython could not use the AI stuff because it was written in<br>Cpython. However, my impression is that the very large majority of python<br>libraries are python source code and not compiled C, etc. programs (dll,<br>
etc.). Furthermore, those "C" libraries may also have "C" source.<br><br>Silverlight will be very powerful when it catches on. I would assume the vast<br>majority of Cpython would run in it.<br><br><br>
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