Winer on MS scripting strategy: implications for Python.NET?

Martin von Loewis loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Thu Sep 6 06:59:11 EDT 2001


"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

> I wonder -- the semantics of the JVM and MSIL aren't all that
> far apart, after all.  It should be quite feasible to have a
> Python.NET that's quite close to Jython in most respects.

For one thing, you have the common language subset (CLS). If you have
to restrict yourself to that, you won't have an __dict__ slot in an
object anymore; I guess there are other restrictions as well that will
be hard to overcome.

> For example because there may well be platforms that run .NET
> but not classic Python, if .NET has significant success -- e.g.
> such devices as new-generation cellphones, etc, may well one
> day come out .NET-enabled by default, while a port of Python
> may be something between very hard and unfeasible.

But that might be well years ahead. By that time, P3K will be
integrated into every microprocessor on the planet :-)

Regards,
Martin



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