Graal Python - GraalVM Community Edition 19.2.1

This is a Python 3 implementation on top of GraalVM. Currently, it is in the early stages of development and as such, it is not ready for any serious applications beyond simple use cases and scripting. The main focus of development right now is to get NumPy, SciPy, and related libraries working.

The Python language components can be installed in GraalVM using the gu utility.

More information is available on the GraalVM website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/python/

Changes in 19.2.1:
Updated to use GraalVM 19.2.1 release. The general GraalVM 19.2.1 release notes are available on the the graalvm.org website.

Graal Python - GraalVM Community Edition 19.2.0.1

This is a Python 3 implementation on top of GraalVM. Currently, it is in the early stages of development and as such, it is not ready for any serious applications beyond simple use cases and scripting. The main focus of development right now is to get NumPy, SciPy, and related libraries working.

The Python language components can be installed in GraalVM using the gu utility.

More information is available on the GraalVM website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/python/

Changes in 19.2.0.1:
Updated to use GraalVM 19.2.0.1 release. The general GraalVM 19.2.0.1 release notes are available on the graalvm.org website.

Graal Python - GraalVM Community Edition 19.2.0

This is a Python 3 implementation on top of GraalVM. Currently, it is in the early stages of development and as such, it is not ready for any serious applications beyond simple use cases and scripting. The main focus of development right now is to get NumPy, SciPy, and related libraries working.

The Python language components can be installed in GraalVM using the gu utility.

More information is available on the GraalVM website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/python/

Changes in 19.2.0 can be found from the project changelog. The general GraalVM 19.2.0 release notes are available on the graalvm.org website.

Graal Python - GraalVM Community Edition 19.2.0-dev-b01

This is a preview release for 19.2 and we recommend testing it for all users.

Graal Python - GraalVM Community Edition 19.1.1

This is a Python 3 implementation on top of GraalVM. Currently, it is in the early stages of development and as such, it is not ready for any serious applications beyond simple use cases and scripting. The main focus of development right now is to get NumPy, SciPy, and related libraries working.

The Python language components can be installed in GraalVM using the gu utility.

More information is available on the GraalVM website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/python/

Changes in 19.1.1:

• Updated to the latest GraalVM version

Graal Python - GraalVM Community Edition 19.1.0

This is a Python 3 implementation on top of GraalVM. Currently, it is in the early stages of development and as such, it is not ready for any serious applications beyond simple use cases and scripting. The main focus of development right now is to get NumPy, SciPy, and related libraries working.

The Python language components can be installed in GraalVM using the gu utility.

More information is available on the GraalVM website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/python/

Changes in 19.1.0:

• Add java.add_to_classpath API to dynamically extend the host class path
• Allow write access to main module bindings for embedder
• Swap arguments for polyglot.export_value to use the more natural (name, value) order and deprecate the previous argument order.
• Update Python standard library files to Python 3.7.3
• Improve performance of exceptions that do not escape
• Fix str(None) to print "None" instead of an empty string
• Fix error messages on polyglot objects to not leak implementation class names of those objects
• Fix erroneously frozen package paths in pre-initialized python modules
• Fix caching of core sources in a native image with a preinitialized context for pre-built images and libpolyglot fast startup
• Implement pwd.getpwuid
• Implement os.exec, os.execv, and os.execl
• Add some missing C API headers needed for tensorflow compilation

Graal Python - GraalVM Community Edition 19.0.2

This is a Python 3 implementation on top of GraalVM. Currently, it is in the early stages of development and as such, it is not ready for any serious applications beyond simple use cases and scripting. The main focus of development right now is to get NumPy, SciPy, and related libraries working.

The Python language components can be installed in GraalVM using the gu utility.

More information is available on the GraalVM website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/python/

Changes in 19.0.2:

• Updated to the latest GraalVM version

Graal Python - GraalVM Community Edition 19.0.0

This is a Python 3 implementation on top of GraalVM. Currently, it is in the early stages of development and as such, it is not ready for any serious applications beyond simple use cases and scripting. The main focus of development right now is to get NumPy, SciPy, and related libraries working.

The Python language components can be installed in GraalVM using the gu utility.

More information is available on the GraalVM website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/python/

Changes in 19.0.0:

• Fix an issue preventing use of encodings in the installable binary
• Fix return value of process when os.exit is called with a boolean, enabling running unittests with the correct return result
• Fix interpretation of foreign objects to prefer interpreting them as integer over double
• Fix performance regression when repeatedly creating a new function in a loop

Graal Python - GraalVM Community Edition 1.0 RC16

This is a Python 3 implementation on top of GraalVM. Currently, it is in the early stages of development and as such, it is not ready for any serious applications beyond simple use cases and scripting. The main focus of development right now is to get NumPy, SciPy, and related libraries working.

The Python language components can be installed in GraalVM using the gu utility.

More information is available on the GraalVM website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/python/

RC16 was focused on cleanup and adding tests, so there are no user facing changes.

Graal Python - GraalVM Community Edition 1.0 RC15

This is a Python 3 implementation on top of GraalVM. Currently, it is in the early stages of development and as such, it is not ready for any serious applications beyond simple use cases and scripting. The main focus of development right now is to get NumPy, SciPy, and related libraries working.

The Python language components can be installed in GraalVM using the gu utility.

More information is available on the GraalVM website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/python/

Changes in RC15:

• Implement PEP 487 __init_subclass__
• Implement PEP 560 __class_getitem__ and __mro_entries__
• Migrate to Truffle libraries for interop
• Support the buffer protocol for mmap
• Support importing java classes using normal Python import syntax
• Improve performance of literal dictionary creation when the first but not all keys are strings
• Improve performance of getting the length of a string
• Improve performance of accessing defaults, keyword-defaults, and code of a function
• Fix getting file separator from the Truffle filesystem rather than the operating system
• Fix constructing and calling methods with non-function callables
• Fix execution of subprocesses with non-default python homes on JVM