Java Posse #209 - Jython Interview

Jython Interview from the JVM Languages Summit Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com We interview Jim Baker, Tobias Ivarson, Frank Wierzbicki and Phil Jenvey from the Jython team, a JVM implementation of the Python programming language.

• Jython home page
• http://www.jython.org/Project/
• Frank Wierzbicki's blog
• http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/
• New compiler for Jython (Tobias' project)
• http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7TQAgQ8aZXo
• CPython
• http://www.python.org/
• Guido Van Rossum
• http://www.python.org/~guido/
• PyCon
• http://www.python.org/community/pycon/
• Python 2.5
• http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/
• Google Summer of Code
• http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
• Python 3000 3.0 is coming
• http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html
• JNA - Java Native Access
• https://jna.dev.java.net/
• Relative imports feature in Python
• http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/
• PEP0008 - discourages the use of relative imports
• http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
• Python 2.6
• http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/
• http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html
• Python standard libraries
• http://docs.python.org/library/
• Python ctypes
• http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-ctypes.html
• Cliff Click on JVM languages
• http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2008/09/jvm-language-su.html
• Lots of CPython choices for GUI creation
• http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming

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