Jython's tutorial. Where?

[Mats Wichmann]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 18:24:58 -0400, D-Man <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 07:22:21PM +0000, Luigi wrote:
>| Hello,
>| 
>| Where I can find tutorial about Jython?
>
>It interprets normal Python source and has nearly all of the standard
>library with it (only missing OS specific stuff and C dependant
>stuff).  Thus the standard Python documentation applies
>(http://www.python.org/docs).

Basically, yes.  If you're coming from the Java world, you'll find
Python easy to learn, but with some surprises.  A tutorial in that
direction sure wouldn't hurt, but I think we'll get that in the form
of books - it looks like several publishers have projects in the works
or on the drawing board.

Roughly speaking, when we talk about "Python" we often mean the whole
package - core language and libraries.  The core language is the same
in Jython; while a good chunk of the ("C" Python) libraries /are/
available anything that requires a C extension probably isn't (perhaps
"probably" is too strong...the extension part could have been recoded
to depend on some standard Java class).  If you're using Jython as a
way to work with Java, you're mostly interested in working with Java
libaries anyway so the "standard library" becomes a somewhat less
important factor.

-- mats

Mats Wichmann

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