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Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:36:25 +0200
From: Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de>
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On 07/01/2012 09:28 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de
> <mailto:t@jollybox.de>> wrote:
> 
>     On 07/01/2012 08:44 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>     > IronPython, sadly, lacks a python standard library.
> 
> 
>     Beg pardon?
> 
>     https://github.com/IronLanguages/main/tree/master/External.LCA_RESTRICTED/Languages/IronPython/27/Lib
> 
> Perhaps things have changed.
> 
> When I last checked the situation, IronPython came with no standard
> library, but you could bolt one on that hadn't been tested well - IIRC,
> just a simple "import os" gave a traceback.  FePy was IronPython with a
> standard library and some degree of testing, but their emphasis was
> windows-only.
> 
> I'd be open to using FePy instead, and I might even call it IronPython,
> but I'm not in the habit of happily using software that is Windows only.
> 

That must have been quite a while ago?

I haven't tested it recently, but I'm fairly sure that IronPython
includes a Python standard library which works reasonably well, and it's
not Windows-only. (it works with Mono)