[python-win32] Is Mark Hammond going to produce a new Python Programming on Win32 book?

[Michael Foord]

Tim Roberts wrote:
> Michael Foord wrote:
>   
>> Tim Roberts wrote: 
>>     
>>>      
>>> Well, there's an interesting issue here.  Much of the new stuff you 
>>> have mentioned has nothing to do with the Python that we know and 
>>> love.  .NET and winforms (which is part of .NET) requires managed 
>>> code, and that means IronPython.  IronPython is NOT the same as 
>>> Python; although the language is the same, the library and the 
>>> idiomatic usage are so very different that it's difficult for one 
>>> person to be competent in both.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hmmm... that hasn't been my experience. Programming IronPython with 
>> idiomatic Python works very well.
>>     
>
> Perhaps the issue is more than I'm not comfortable with idiomatic .NET.  
> I did take a semi-serious stab at working with WPF in IronPython, but it 
> just wasn't comfortable.
>
> I am very pleased to see that an IronPython book is in the works.  
> Because I think WPF is one of the most exciting things to come out of 
> Microsoft in a very long time, I will be among the first in line.
>
>   
Ok. Personally I have found that I can still *basically* use idiomatic 
Python when working with .NET classes. The exception is when optimizing 
as the performance profiles of IronPython vs CPython are very different.

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Michael