Use python and Jython together? (newbie)

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Karjer Jdfjdf wrote:
> I'm pretty new at programming and want some advice on mixing Jython and 
> Python.
> 
> I want to use Jython to access some Java libraries, but I want to keep 
> developing in normal Python. Some modules I use a lot are not available 
> in Jython.
> 
> The bulk of my programming is in Python but I want to use Java 2D 
> libraries for graphical presentation of data generated in normal Python. 
> Is it possible that I generate data in Python and then pass it through 
> to a Jython program to visualise the data.
> 
You could have 2 scripts running, one in CPython and the other in
Jython, communicating via sockets. You would need to decide on a
protocol, perhaps passing the data as strings encoded in UTF-8.