Extend with Java/Printing?

[Alex Martelli]

Ken Godee wrote:

>> > Is it possible to extend python to use Java?
>> 
>> Jython is perhaps what you're looking for !
>> 
>> www.jython.org
>> 
>> * Python interpreter written in Java
>> * Access to all Java packages
>> * Compile Python to Java bytecode (.class)
>> 
>> --Gilles
> 
> I've seen it and seems popular, it just seemed backwards
> to what I wanted to do. I'll read up on it.

If Jython appears "backwards to what you want", then you
may be interested in JPE, http://jpe.sourceforge.net/ -- I
haven't looked at it in a while, but it does seem oriented
to offering access to Java stuff from Classic-Python programs.


Alex