The 1.0 release includes several fixes for memory leaks, a refactored source code layout, an updated Avalon tutorial, better compatibility with CPython 2.4 and a new exception system amongst other ...

Microsoft is backing IronPython because it exemplifies just how well the .NET Framework can handle dynamic runtime languages. Supposedly, IronPython runs as fast as the C-based implementation of ...

Unlike the canonical implementation, IronPython implements the str class as Unicode rather than an ASCII byte stream. While some are saying this is a serious fragmentation issue, others say it is ...

And ditto with its complement, IronPython. IronRuby and IronPython, until November 1, are Microsoft-supported and .Net-targeted versions of the Ruby and Python dynamic programming languages.

Microsoft has released a beta version of IronPython, the code name for a version of the Python scripting language for Microsoft's .Net development software. The IronPython toolkit is designed to ...

The shipment of IronPython 1.0 this week marks a milestone for the long-running project, aimed at developing a Python implementation on Microsoft's .Net platform, and for developers' goal of ...

Microsoft is moving two of its development languages -- IronPython and IronRuby -- as well as the company's Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) to an Apache open-source license, company officials ...