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There are a few gotchas however.</p> <div class="admonition note"> <p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> <p class="last">If possible please use the most recent version available of the Python implementation.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="jython"> <h2>Jython<a class="headerlink" href="#jython" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <div class="sidebar"> <p class="first sidebar-title">Jython</p> <p class="last"><a class="reference external" href="http://jython.org">Jython</a> is a Python implementation running on the Java virtual machine.</p> </div> <ul class="simple"> <li>You’ll need to use Jython 2.7 or newer (2.5 is no longer supported by Pyro)</li> <li>The multiplexing server type (select/poll-based server) is not reliable on Jython. You can only use the threadpool server type.</li> <li>You cannot use the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">other</span></tt> parameter to the requestloop of a Threadpool server. The workaround is to spawn a separate thread for each socket that you need to listen to. (The name server does this for the broadcast server, if it detects that it is running on Jython)</li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" id="ironpython"> <h2>IronPython<a class="headerlink" href="#ironpython" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <div class="sidebar"> <p class="first sidebar-title">IronPython</p> <p class="last"><a class="reference external" href="http://ironpython.net">IronPython</a> is a Python implementation running on the .NET virtual machine.</p> </div> <ul class="simple"> <li>Pyro requires the <tt class="kbd docutils literal"><span class="pre">zlib</span></tt> module, which is not included in older IronPython versions. IronPython 2.7 includes it by default. If you need to install it manually, get it <a class="reference external" href="https://bitbucket.org/jdhardy/ironpythonzlib/downloads/">from the developer</a>.</li> <li>IronPython cannot properly serialize exception objects, which could lead to problems when dealing with Pyro’s enhanced tracebacks. For now, Pyro contains a workaround for this IronPython <a class="reference external" href="http://ironpython.codeplex.com/workitem/30805">bug</a>.</li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" id="pypy"> <h2>Pypy<a class="headerlink" href="#pypy" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <div class="sidebar"> <p class="first sidebar-title">Pypy</p> <p class="last"><a class="reference external" href="http://pypy.org">Pypy</a> is a Python implementation written in Python itself, and it usually is quite a lot faster than the default implementation because it has a <abbr title="Just in time">JIT</abbr>-compiler.</p> </div> <p>I haven’t used Pypy much let alone with Pyro, but it seems that at least the recent builds (1.9 and newer) of Pypy work fine with Pyro.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <p class="logo"><a href="index.html"> <img class="logo" src="_static/pyro.png" alt="Logo"/> </a></p> <h3><a href="index.html">Table Of Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#">Running on alternative Python implementations</a><ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#jython">Jython</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#ironpython">IronPython</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#pypy">Pypy</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="api/socketserver.html" title="previous chapter">Socket server API contract</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="pyrolite.html" title="next chapter">Pyrolite - client library for Java and .NET</a></p> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <form class="search" action="search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> <p class="searchtip" style="font-size: 90%"> Enter search terms or a module, class or function name. </p> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="pyrolite.html" title="Pyrolite - client library for Java and .NET" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="api/socketserver.html" title="Socket server API contract" >previous</a> |</li> <li><a href="index.html">Pyro 4.21 documentation</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer"> © Copyright Irmen de Jong. 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