[Mono-list] python bindings

[Miguel de Icaza]

> i just started coding python bindings.
> due to my illlness (i got a flu, right after my holidays), i wasnt able to 
> code last weeks.
> but now im ready to spend my meantime enhancing mcs to take .py files as 
> extension. i will follow the syntax proposed by guido 
> (http://www.python.org/proposal.txt).

I suggest you talk to Ian at ActiveState, he did the Perl work for
ActiveState and has some very interesting comments on their approach to
port Perl and Python might be more interesting than just compiling Perl
or Python to the CLR. 

Their basic reasoning is that people use Perl and Python mostly for the
plug-ins and extensions, and those would not be available to a
Perl/Python environment that just generates IL, so a piece of the
runtime must be available.

Their current approach is to basically run the Perl/Python interpreter
side by side and they make the interpreter a consumer and producer of
.NET types as to integrate with the rest of the environment.

Miguel