<div class="gmail_extra">Ummm... reality check...<br><br>Patrik:<br> I have been lurking on the django developers list (along with IronPython) for several years hoping for exactly the combination you are suggesting. I am unaware that anyone has tackled the project of making django run on IronPython yet, on either Windows or mono. As I see it, there may be two problems.<br>
1) django has issues with strings being assumed to be 8-bit bytes. This has to be fixed to port django to Python 3, and I suggested that IronPython would be a useful stepping stone in that effort, but no one took the bait AFAIK.<br>
2) django's built-in object relational mapper is targeted at four databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Oracle. <br> (see <a href="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/databases/">https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/databases/</a>)<br>
Of these four, I think that only SQLite is well supported by IronPython. Oracle, MySQL and PostgresSQL are accessible from IronPython using my adodbapi package, but it only works on Windows, since it relies on Microsoft COM to reach the ODBC database engine (via traditional ADO). My own efforts to use pure <a href="http://ADO.NET">ADO.NET</a> database calls had a rather dismal result, and I abandoned the branch. To my knowledge, the only other PEP 249 database APIs for IronPython are the group on fePy, which have not been maintained in several years. I am also unsure about the level of database support in mono.<br>
<br>If someone is working on support for django on IronPython, I would love to be part of the project.<br>--<br>Vernon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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>> On Apr 25, 2012 4:56 AM, "Pratik Paranjape" <<a href="mailto:pratikparanjape@gmail.com" target="_blank">pratikparanjape@gmail.com</a>><br>
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>>> .NET library with Django as<br>
>>> front end. The library works fine with mono, was hoping to use ipy to<br>
>>> call it in Django views.<br>
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>>> Thanks again.<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div></div>