Wow, it’s been a long time – I wanted to manage at least one post per month, but it’s been three months. Ah well, I’ve been busy working on filling in a couple of holes in the IronPython standard library: sqlite3 and zlib.
IronPython.Zlib
IronPython.Zlib implements the zlib module for IronPython using ComponentAce’s zlib.net, which is a purely managed implementation of the zlib library. IronPython.Zlib is entirely managed code and works with both 32-bit and 64-bit IronPython. It passes all of the Python 2.6 zlib and gzip tests and most of the zipfile tests.
IronPython.SQLite
IronPython.SQLite is a port of pysqlite to IronPython using C#-SQLite, which, similar to zlib.net, is a managed implementation of SQLite. Thus, IronPython.SQLite is also 100% managed code. It passes about 87% of the Python 2.6 sqlite3 tests; the remaining ones are mostly corner cases or rarely used functionality.
.NET 4 Support
Neither of the above libraries have been built or tested with IronPython for .NET 4.0. I don’t see any reason they shouldn’t work, but they’ve never been tried. If anyone does try, let me know how it goes!