Awesome. I'm really excited to be able to write DLL's in pure python for the CLR, and then hook them up to run in Windows as native-looking apps easily.

Now that there is a Python2.5 equivalent version, they can focus on getting performance out of IronPython, which is already really good:

http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Wiki/View.aspx?title=IP20...

Hah... I am amused by the 4+ thousand percent difference with TryExcept... why is that? (Ipy is slower by 40 times?)