[Chicago] Jython

[Feihong Hsu]

It's fairly hard to use Java frameworks without knowing Java (the documentation usually assumes you understand the Java type system among other things). Likewise, .NET frameworks are hard to grok without knowing C#. IMO, if you only want to pick up one of these, then I would recommend learning C#. It's slightly easier to learn than Java and its semantics are closer to Python (it has a "dynamic" type that lets you use duck typing). 

Getting back to the subject of Python, maybe what you really want is "Teach me IronPython". 

--- On Fri, 4/17/09, Robert Spelich <rlspelich at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Robert Spelich <rlspelich at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Chicago] Jython
To: "The Chicago Python Users Group" <chicago at python.org>
Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 2:31 PM

Python is really the only language I know. I learned it over the past year to write script's to automate tasks and add functionality to ESRI's ArcGIS applications. I think Python is  a really cool language and now I am using it for web dev (non work related).

I do get the impression, perhaps I am wrong, that a lot of Python developers also know Java or learned Java first. Is that a correct assessment?
I brought up the idea of a Jython talk more out of curiosity to see what could be done with it. I really wasn't too hip on learning Java but to build stand alone applications using ESRI's developer framework I have to know Java or .NET.

-Bob

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:12 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

I think it is almost merged back now. I saw it discussed in the

mailing list, but I haven't seen what is going on yet.



very naive question: why would someone want to run java in appengine

and then on top of that use jython?



On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Steven Githens <swgithen at mtu.edu> wrote:

> Kumar McMillan wrote:

>>

>> How about Running Jython on Google App Engine !

>>

>> (kidding)

>>

>>

>

> Actually, when Google added Java to the supported list of platforms for

> AppEngine they also submitted patches for Jython 2.5 so solve a few issues

> so it could be used. ( I think they might be merged back into Jython core by

> now ).     :)

>

> -Steve

>

>> Seriously now, +1 for a talk about Jython.

>>

>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Pete <pfein at pobox.com> wrote:

>>

>>>

>>> +1

>>> I'd love to see some cool things briefly demo'd with it + some time to do

>>> a

>>> group install.

>>> On Apr 17, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Robert Spelich wrote:

>>>

>>> I am new to the mailing list and would like to suggest Jython as a topic

>>> for

>>> a future meeting presentation.

>>> Looking forward to meeting you all at the next meeting.

>>> Thanks.

>>>

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>>> -Bob

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