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Jython support #174

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DRMacIver opened this issue Sep 25, 2015 · 1 comment
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Jython support #174

DRMacIver opened this issue Sep 25, 2015 · 1 comment
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A couple of people have asked about Jython support and it would be nice to be able to offer it.

I'm currently aware of only a few major issues blocking it:

  1. Jython is one of the platforms that don't support sqlite. See Omit sqlite database implementation when sqlite is not available #173 for details.
  2. Jython has a weird UCS-2 (it says UTF-16 but AIUI it's not) internal text encoding which means that for some codepoints unichr can throw a ValueError.
  3. There are some bugs in py.test's pytester plugin under Jython
  4. Jython triggers my favourite pytz bug in an excitingly novel way.

Basically nothing serious, but it will require a lot of liasing with external projects and attention to detail to get everything working. It would be better if someone who were more interested in Jython than I am picked this up.
@DRMacIver DRMacIver added help-wanted enhancement it's not broken, but we want it to be better labels Sep 25, 2015
@Zac-HD Zac-HD added meta for wider topics than the software itself new-feature entirely novel capabilities or strategies and removed enhancement it's not broken, but we want it to be better help wanted labels Feb 20, 2018
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Zac-HD commented Sep 15, 2018

Jython has been on life support since 2015, and seems more likely to die soon than support Python 3. We'd still be happy to accept patches that improve Jython support, but with no comments here in three years we don't need a dedicated issue.

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