[Tutor] jython and dynamic typing

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On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:33:04AM -0400, Erik Price wrote:
| Okay... admittedly I don't know much about Python, and I know even less=
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| about Java.  But I was wondering something about Jython --
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| From what I understand, in Java the types must be declared and cannot be=
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| interchanged like they can in Python.  So then how does Jython=20
| "translate" Python programs that take advantage of dynamic typing into=20
| the stricter Java code?  Mind you, since I don't know much about Java, a=
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| layman's answer would be great if possible.

The generated code just calls methods in the jython interpreter to do
the dirty work.  The generated stuff _is_ java, but is _not_
independent of jython.

-D

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