December 12, 2005

IronPython 0.9.6 Now Available

IronPython: News item

via last Friday's announcement:

Hello IronPython community,

We’ve just released the newest version of IronPython – 0.9.6. This is most likely the last Alpha version of IronPython before the end of the year when we play to release IronPython 1.0 Beta 1. This build includes many bug fixes for issues reported to us by the community as well as support for many new modules. We are continuing to drive completeness of the Python and support for interoperability between .NET and IronPython. Here are the highlithts of the 0.9.6 release, the full list of changes is included at the end of the mail:

All missing dictionary methods are now implemented
Parser changes for tools integration
Weak reference support
Itertools module is now implemented
Improved debugger sequence point generation, parser & tokenizer improvements
Python equality/hashing and CLR equality/hashing separated
Unhandled exceptions are no longer passed to the OS
Exceptions have better stack traces in the interactive environment
locals() support for most common usage scenarios (but not execfile or eval yet)
Regular expression improvements: Implement missing methods, support Python named groups, fix match implementation when matching in the middle of a string,

The bits can be accessed for here.