Has IronPython gotten to a point where you can just drop it in as a replacement for CPython?
To clarify: I mean can IronPython run applications originally written for CPython (no .NET involved, of course)
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Has IronPython gotten to a point where you can just drop it in as a replacement for CPython?
To clarify: I mean can IronPython run applications originally written for CPython (no .NET involved, of course)
Yes, pretty much, at least on Windows with “real” (Microsoft) .NET underneath. If you’re depending on C-coded extensions, chances are that ironclad can bail you out; you get 2.6 support, just about every CPython standard library or third-party extension module (maybe not trivial for those coded in Fortran, or C++, but that’s a minority), plus of course every .NET module on the planet — not a bad tradeoff!
How well this works with Mono on MacOSX or Linux is a different issue…