Status of Python for .NET

[Gerson Kurz]

Two questions: 

- The current version of VisualPython .NET seems not to generate CLR
code, but just provide a fancy IDE for "Python as we know and love
it". Will Python support the CLR, and specifically the
language-interoperability thing? (I'm asking because I want to be
spared the ... bad language-lookalike that is C#). 

- With the leave of Mark Hammond from Activestate, does anybody have a
guess about the future of Visual Python .NET?