April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
646 pages
16h 48m
English
Content preview from Expert Python Programming - Third Edition
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IronPython
IronPython brings Python into the .NET Framework. The project is supported by Microsoft, where IronPython's lead developers work. It is quite an important implementation for the promotion of a language. Besides Java, the .NET community is one of the biggest developer communities out there. It is also worth noting that Microsoft provides a set of free development tools that turn Visual Studio into a full-fledged Python IDE. This is distributed as Visual Studio plugins named Python Tools for Visual Studio (PVTS), and is available as open source code on GitHub (http://microsoft.github.io/PTVS).
The latest stable release is 2.7.8, and it is compatible with Python 2.7. Unlike Jython, we can observe active development on both 2.x