= rubypython

* htp://rubypython.rubyforge.org

== DESCRIPTION:

RubyPython is a C bridge between Ruby and Python with a Ruby interface. It's aim is to make the power of the Python's great standard library available to Ruby programmers from within Ruby.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

Features:
* Can handle simple conversion of Python builtin types to ruby builtin types and vice versa
* Can import python modules
* Can execute arbitrary methods on imported modules and return the result
* Python objects can be treated as Ruby objects!
* Python's standard library available to you from within ruby.

== SYNOPSIS:
RubyPython.start
cPickle=RubyPython.import("cPickle")
p cPickle.dumps("RubyPython is awesome!")
RubyPython.stop

== REQUIREMENTS:
Python must be installed. Currently, RubyPython requires python2.5 but it may soon be able to work with other versions. It should work fine with Python 2.4 but you may experience issues with lower versions. I have only tested it on Mac OSX 10.5, so I'm not sure what parts may need correcting for other systems.

== INSTALL:

sudo gem install rubypython

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2008 Zach Raines

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