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A release candidate for Jython 2.2.1, a bugfix release of 2.2, is available for download: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jython/jython_installer-2.2.1rc1.jar See http://jython.org/Project/installation.html for installation instructions.

The biggest change in this release is that file reading and writing will no longer be run through the current JVM's default charset. In the 2.2 release, the bytes read in from a file opened in text mode would be decoded by the default charset and then when written out, bytes would be encoded using the same default charset. In 2.2.1rc1, read returns unadulterated bytes and write doesn't automatically encode the bytes it's writing.... read more

Jython 2.2 is available for download:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jython/jython_installer-2.2.jar See http://jython.org/Project/installation.html for installation instructions.

This is the first production release of Jython in nearly six years, and it contains many new features:
- new-style classes
- Java List integration
- a PEP 302 implementation
- iterators
- generators
- __future__ division
- support for running on modern JVMs
- a new installer
- ssl and non-blocking support for socket... read more

Jython 2.1 adds all Python 2.1.1 features to the Java implementation of the Python programming language. It is available from http://www.jython.org/

Jython 2.0 adds all Python 2.0 features to the Java implementation of the Python programming language. It is available from http://www.jython.org/