jython - extending with java

[Steve Holden]

"Jesper Olsen" <jolsen at mailme.dk> wrote in message
news:cf0ad9fb.0201030145.18dbdc50 at posting.google.com...
> Python is a really easy language to use,
> but for certain things not super fast.
>
> Hence, it is useful to be able to code certain things
> in other languages.
>
> Extending with C is realtively easy,
> but how about java?
>
> Is Jython the only way to do this?
>
> I have been looking a little at jython, and am a little
> disappointed with it. The distribution seems to be targeted
> mainly towards a WINDOWS platform (and not Linux).
> Also, it is quite slow...
>
> Is anyone using jython? Searching comp.python for jython brings up
> only posts; most recent is april 2001.
>
Well, let's see, anything to help someone who's apparently never heard of
Google :-)

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=jython%20release&as_ugroup=comp.lang.py
thon&lr=lang_en&hl=en

The first post this search brings up is Finn Bock's December 12 (last year!)
announcement of the Jython 2.1 beta. Can you take it from there?

regards
 Steve
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