Jorgen Grahn wrote: > You are rude to an obvious newbie here ... please keep in mind that today's > stupid newbies are tomorrow's Python professionals. > I didn't mean to be rude and apologize if that's the way it came out.
> Maybe he /is/ running Jython and failed to explain that properly? > No, he explicitely stated that he's using Python 2.4 (I'm pretty sure Jython's latest release is 2.1) and SPE (which didn't handle Jython last time I tried it) > If I > understand things correctly, jar files are not tied to Java but to the java > bytecode format -- which Java and Jython share. > Yes, it's used to store/package compiled java classes (.class bytecode files) and various metadata associated to the classes (resources, ...) and therefore tied to the bytecode (or the JVM) indeed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list