IronPython 1.0 Beta 3 Released

February 15, 2006; 07:33 AM
Hello IronPython Community,

We have just released IronPython 1.0 Beta 3. This release is primarily a bug fix release as we drive towards IronPython 1.0. Unfortunately we didn’t get to review the PythonEngine APIs in this release but will be getting this done for the next beta.

We also continue to work on improving CLR and Python interop. In this release we’ve added support for an assembly path (clr.Path) for assembly dependency resolution. If you’re currently using clr.AddReferenceToFile(‘…’) you’ll need to modify these calls to update the path and then add a reference without a full path (this will ensure dependencies get resolved in an orderly fashion). We’ve also improved our array support, adding both slicing operations for arrays and a new array creation syntax: System.Array[int]((2,3,4,5)) will create an integer array with the values 2,3,4 and 5.

Finally we continue to advance standard Python compatibility with the addition of a few new built-in modules: struct, codecs, and marshal. These are some of the most-requested modules from the community.

You can download the release from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F22E51E5-B82E-4A54-9CCC-3418E0BF5639&displaylang=en

We'd like to thank everyone in the community for your bug reports and suggestions that helped make this a better release: allenwb, Flexibal, Giles Thomas, glchapman, Hector Miuler Malpica Gallegos, Shigeru Hemmi, Jesse Kaplan, John Platt, Matt Beckuis, Michael Shilman, Michael Twomey, Mike Hostetler, mrwizard82d1, Nicholas Jacobson, Paparipote, Ravi Terala, Sanghyeon Seo, Stanpinte, Thomas, and Vargaz.

Thanks and keep in touch,
The IronPython Team