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<h1>Running on alternative Python implementations<a class="headerlink" href="#running-on-alternative-python-implementations" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Pyro is written in 100% pure Python which -theoretically- enables it to be used with
any compatible Python implementation.
There are a few gotchas however.</p>
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<p class="last">If possible please use the most recent version available of the Python implementation.</p>
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<p class="last"><a class="reference external" href="http://jython.org">Jython</a> is a Python implementation running on the Java virtual machine.</p>
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<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>
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<p class="last"><a class="reference external" href="http://ironpython.net">IronPython</a> is a Python implementation running on the .NET virtual machine.</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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