Using Jython with Django?

Question

I am planning to use Jython with Django. I want to know how stable the Jython project is, how easy to use it is, and how large its developer community is.

Answer 1

Django is proven to work with Jython:

• Special focus in Jython 2.5 was to make it compatible with modern web frameworks like Django
• There is also a special project, django-jython, that focuses on making database backends and extensions available for Jython development.
• There is explicit documentation on how to run Django on Jython

In theory, Jython is 100% compatible with CPython. In practice, some extensions or libraries may have badly written code that make them dependent on a specific Python implementation such as CPython. The django-jython project explicitly provides a tested solution to overcome this problem. Of course you can still run across some libraries that explicitly require CPython (hence mostly safe).