Testing Iron Python's Mettle

Scott Swigart evaluated version 1.0 release of Iron Python to see if it's ready for prime-time by building an app that lists information on the drives available at run time.
Scott experimented with Python's behavior by generating some compile time and run time errors. As Scott discovered, you can import and use any of the various .NET namespaces, however for now they lack Intellisense support.

If you want to check out Iron Python for yourself, Microsoft has also announced a CTP release of Iron Python integrated with ASP.NET. You can experiment with Iron Python in Visual Web Developer 2005 Express, as well. Microsoft's David Ebbo posted a white paper explaining how Iron Python is serving as a prototype for the new ASP.NET model for dynamic languages. David also listed the ASP.NET features that are, and are not, supported in Iron Python.

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