[IronPython] Python Standard Library in IronPython

[Seo Sanghyeon]

2008/10/29 Kenneth Miller <xkenneth at gmail.com>:
>   I know I can access just about everything in the python standard library
> by simply adding it to the ironpython path, however this is not a good
> solution when writing dynamic applications in Silverlight. I can include the
> standard library with my silverlight application, but this bloats the
> package and causes horrible load times. I started writing some abstractions
> last night to do common path operations using whatever library is present
> (.Net vs cpy) when it dawned on me to simply re-map common functions in the
> python standard library to the .Net equivalent. Has something like this
> already been done? If not, does anyone have any interest in doing this?

This is a good idea, and I actually planned to do this for path manipulation
some time ago, named "clipath" (analogy to "ntpath", "posixpath", etc.).
Another obvious candidate is "clidom", reusing .NET's DOM classes.

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Seo Sanghyeon