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Vernon Cole has announced the release of a new version of adodbapi, a Windows database driver that works with both CPython and IronPython.   This version is all about django support.  There are two targets:     A) MS SQL database connections for mainstream django.     B) running django on IronPython    Thanks to Adam Vandenberg for the django modifications. adodbapi home page on sourceforge A Python DB-API 2.0 module that makes it easy to use Microsoft ADO for connecting with databases and other data sources using either CPython or IronPython. This version is highly refactored following the work of Adam Vandenberg, and also has all of the current user suggested patches. Both the Mercurial tree and the downloadable zip files are updated.  (There is no fancy installer, just copy the folder in your site-packages folder.) This has been tested using CPython 2.3, CPython 2.6, IronPython 2.6 (.NET 2) and IronPython 2.6(.NET 4...

Jeff Hardy is an IronPython MVP and a Python community member who has invested a lot of time in getting standard Python libraries available for IronPython. Some of his recent work has been with both Django and the zlib module . It's been a while since we've reported on his work, so this post gets us up to date with what Jeff has been working on: IronPython.Zlib The zlib module is a C extension for Python. Because it is in the Python standard library it is used by many other libraries, like setuptools, making it an important part of the Python infrastructure. Unfortunately not all of the standard library C extensions have been ported to IronPython. The problem of C extensions is one of the major drawbacks of alternative implementations of Python; both Jython and PyPy have the same problem. Even if your code is 'pure-Python' it may not run on alternative implementations if it uses C extensions. For IronPython one solution is to use Ironclad , an open source project cr...

More IronPython and DLR related projects, articles and news from around the web. IronPython in Visual Studio 2010 Screenshot of syntax highlighting  Visual Studio 2010 doesn't come with IronPython support out of the box, but it does have extensive APIs for writing your own extensions. Jeff Hardy has taken up the challenge and has written a set of IronPython extensions for Visual Studio 2010 with syntax highlighting, regions etc. The project has binaries available : " Just double click the .vsix file to install. " StackOverflow DevDays Cambridge Review Diary of a schwag hag Cambridge Stack Overflow Dev Days At the end of October I attended the StackOverflow DevDays in Cambridge UK and spoke on Python and IronPython. I demonstrated .NET integration with IronPython by creating a simple Windows Forms application at the interactive interpreter. This was followed by going through Peter Norvig's Python Spell Checker as an example of concise Python code. Thanks to Ne...

Jeff Hardy certainly keeps himself busy. First of all he has done a new release of NWSGI: NWSGI 1.1 Preview 2 NWSGI 1.1 Preview 2 is exactly the same as Preview 1, except linked against IronPython 2.6 Beta 1. NWSGI is an implementation of the WSGI specification (Web Server Gateway Interface) for IronPython. It is implemented as an ASP.NET HttpHandler and is supported on the IIS 6 / 7 webservers (or any ASP.NET capable server). NWSGI allows the integration of Python applications like Trac and Django with existing ASP.NET facilities such as caching, sessions, and user management. NWSGI isn't quite sufficient to get Django running with IronPython. To remedy this Jeff has a project hosted on bitbucket (Mercurial version control repository) with patches to support Django on IronPython. django-ipy project on bitbucket On a casual glance the patches look pretty unobtrusive although I don't know how many of the Django tests pass on IronPython. It would be an important milestone to fina...

Jeff Hardy is the creator of NWSGI , a .NET implementation of the Python WSGI web standard that recently reached version 0.4. For those who might not know, WSGI is modern web specification (like CGI all grown up) specifically for Python. It allows components of web applications to communicate. Most Python web frameworks speak WSGI (pronounced wizz-gee), including the best known Python web framework Django (which is approaching a full 1.0 release). Jeff Hardy has been developing NWSGI by running Django on IronPython with the Cassini web server . It seems like Django has become the standard 'compatibility-test' for Python implementations. Both Jython and PyPy have been working on improved Django compatibility performance, and Dino Viehland demonstrated Django on IronPython at this year's PyCon in Chicago. Jeff has started a blog tracking the progress of Django with NWSGI, including any necessary patches. In the first two entries he describes getting the Django admin panel t...

At PyCon 2008 Dino Viehland demonstrated Django running on IronPython (with some funky Silverlight communicating with Django via JSON as a bonus). PyCon 2008: Django Now Plays on the Dark Side Dino: IronPython, MS SQL, and PEP 249

perezvon presents Django running on IronPython/Mono/Mac. http://d.hatena.ne.jp/perezvon/20061030/1162209668