[IronPython] IronPython and standard Python libraries

[Martin Maly]

As I said, what I did was merely import the files. I did not run them.
That will be the next step. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-ironpython.com-bounces at lists.ironpython.com 
> [mailto:users-ironpython.com-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On 
> Behalf Of John Doty
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:36 PM
> To: Discussion of IronPython
> Subject: Re: [IronPython] IronPython and standard Python libraries
> 
> On 5/17/05, Martin Maly <martmaly at exchange.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > After reading Anthony's email on CPython's standard 
> libraries I tried 
> > to import the libraries using IronPython to see how well IronPython 
> > does just importing the libraries. Out of 182 modules that 
> I tried to 
> > import
> > 116 imported successfully (which does not unfortunately 
> mean that they 
> > would also run correctly) and 66 of the 182 standard 
> Python's library 
> > modules fail to import. The most frequent recurrent theme of the 
> > import failures was missing built-in modules (struct, exception, 
> > errno, ...) or unimplemented features. The detailed results 
> are below.
> ...
> > Running socket.py ...   PASS
> ...
> 
> This is interesting. Did somebody go and port _socket? If 
> not, how did you run this test battery? (If so, looks like I 
> wasted my Sunday
> afternoon...)
> 
> thanks,
> john
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