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@ansalond ansalond released this 05 Nov 13:51
· 20405 commits to master since this release

Graal.Python is a Python 3 implementation for GraalVM. Currently, it is in the early stages of development and as such, it is not ready for any serious applications beyond simple use cases and scripting.

The Python language components can be installed in GraalVM using the gu utility.

More information is available on the GraalVM website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/python/

Changes:

  • Support help in the builtin Python shell
  • Add readline to enable history and autocompletion in the Python shell
  • Add support for the -q, -E, -s, and -S Python launcher flags
  • Improve display of foreign array-like objects
  • Improve support for string and bytes regular expressions using our TRegex engine
  • Support loading site-packages installed with easy_install
  • Initial support for the binascii module