Autoplot 2017 should use the released Jython 2.7 and use JyNI to access scipy. This ticket is to keep track of the issues.
The main issue is that Autoplot uses tricks to look inside of Jython 2.2 to get completions, for example, because it needs access to the syntax tree for completions and other uses. Kristoff and Sebastian have both requested Jython 2.7 features.
I'm sure this is a repeat ticket.
Here's a nice video where Stefan Richthofer explains the difficultly of doing this, and shows how completely he intends to solve this problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpxwShdFD1I
The Python Geopack I'm playing with uses "with ... as ...", which is Python 2.5.
I can't find the ticket which says I'll target 2.5 first. But it's around. Also there's a 3.6 in developement.
The SciPy people were talking about using SunPy or AstroPy for coordinate transformations. This might be an interesting use case.
See also https://sourceforge.net/p/autoplot/feature-requests/344/