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  * JythonClassesInJava : How to write a Jython class in Java
  * PythonTypesInJava : How to make a Python type in Java(2.5 and later)
  * /AttributeLookupMethods: Some explanation for the different methods to lookup attributes on PyObject.
  * /ImplementingStrAndRepr: Tips for implementation of `__str__` and `__unicode__` in Java.
  * IntegerConversion Basics of converting PyObject numbers to Java primitives
  * /UsingPyNewStringFromPythonCode: On the corner case of converting a Java String to a Python String.		   * PythonTypesInJava   : How to make a Jython type in Java (2.5 and later), mostly about the type exposer
  * JythonClassesInJava : How to make a Jython class in Java (pre-2.2, deprecated)
  * /AttributeLookupMethods : Some explanation for the different methods to lookup attributes on PyObject.
  * /ImplementingStrAndRepr : Tips for implementation of `__str__` and `__unicode__` in Java.
  * IntegerConversion : Basics of converting PyObject numbers to Java primitives
  * /UsingPyNewStringFromPythonCode : On the corner case of converting a Java String to a Python String.
  * GeneratedDerivedClasses : {{{gderived.py}}}, a tool used when implementing new types

This is an introduction to developing Jython, just to get someone started. It doesn't cover the source code in any depth or discuss the design behind Jython. It's purely aimed at getting a development environment set up. It's definitely not complete so feel free to make it better!

Mercurial

Subversion

Although development has moved to a Mercurial repository, at the time of this writing (July 2011), you still need Subversion installed. This is because the Mercurial repository named above continues to reference a part of the CPython source at  https://svn.python.org  as a "sub-repository".

The following advice is based on experience using Mercurial 1.9, Slik Subversion and Windows 7 (AMDx64). Other tools and operating systems exist. An installation that gives you the command 'svn' on your path is sufficient.

If you do not have Subversion installed (and on the PATH) the Mercurial hg clone command will terminate with the message: 

abort: The system cannot find the file specified

at the point where it attempts to read the sub-repository, specified in the files  .hgsub  and  .hgsubstate .

A second requirement is that Subversion should accept the SSL certificate from the site svn.python.org. If you have not used Subversion already to access the site, you may find that the  hg clone  command hangs at the point where it attempts to read the sub-repository. A simple solution is to visit the site once from the command line as follows: 

svn info https://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/release26-maint/Lib/

Subversion will issue a warning about the certificate, and you will be able to "accept permanently" the site's certificate. The Mercurial clone operation should not now hang.

If you see the sub-directory  CPythonLib  created in your local repository, then the call to Subversion by Mercurial was a success. (It can take a few minutes to complete.)

Ant

  • Ant is a Java-based tool used to build Jython from source.

  • Eclipse users, see Eclipse Ant notes

  • Download the latest version (Jython requires Ant 1.7 or later to build) and install it so Ant's bin directory is somewhere in your path.

  • To build Jython, run ant in the top-level Jython directory (which contains the Ant file build.xml).

  • The results of the build appear in the dist subdirectory.

Tests

The Jython build process generates an executable Bash script, dist/bin/jython, to make it easy to launch your build of Jython. It works on Unix-like platforms (including Mac OS X and Cygwin).

If you're using Windows without Cygwin, use the batch file dist/bin/jython.bat instead.

Now you're ready to run tests...

  • There are a couple different places to find test cases

    • Jython's dist/Lib/test (populated by the build process)

    • Jython's bugtests subdirectory (included with the development sources)

  • Run a particular test, or the whole Python test suite with ant regrtest.

See TestingJython for some more details.

Directory layout

Note the following describes the current trunk/jython. If you are working from an older tag, src doesn't exist and src/com and src/org are moved up a level.

  • src/org : top level package for python

  • src/com : zxJDBC related sources

  • src/shell : launcher scripts

  • src/templates: java source generator & related templates, used to update portions of java classes elsewhere in the source tree

  • Demo : demo sources for the website and such

  • Doc : the website documentation (see /WebsiteBuilderSetup to build the http://jython.org website)

  • Lib : the python source files for Jython standard library implementations

  • Lib/test : test cases

  • Misc : random scripts which are not all used; some generate source

  • Tools : JythonC and Freeze

  • CPythonLib : Lib directory from the corresponding version of cpython, via svn:externals

  • bugtests : additional test cases covering bug reports

Coding guidance

Other stuff

Tasks

Porting external projects to Jython

JythonDeveloperGuide (last edited 2014-07-26 16:06:40 by HenningJacobs)