Google Labs is shutting down?

Today I learned that Google Labs is shutting down. Google has said it will be "ending Labs experiments," which seems like a nice way of saying, "pulling the plug." It seems like a real shame. That means no more cool things like this, or this.

[pymex] Or you could just use Jython...

I recently discovered an alternative to pymex: using Jython inside the Matlab interpreter. Jython is an implementation of the Python interpreter in Java. The Matlab interpreter allows the importing of Java objects, so all a programmer needs to do is import the Jython interpreter. Here is an example:

>> javaaddpath('C:\Jython25\jython.jar')
>> import org.python.util.PythonInterpreter
>> import org.python.core.*
>> interp = PythonInterpreter()
 
interp =
 
org.python.util.PythonInterpreter@22ff0470
 
>> interp.exec('import sys')
>> interp.exec('print sys')


>> interp.set('a', 42)
>> interp.exec('print a')
42.0

>> a2 = interp.get('a')
 
a2 =
 
42.0

Jython is really cool, but it does have a drawback. Modules written in C for CPython are not compatible with Jython. That excludes alot of modules, but that may not bother some people. If you do need to use a CPython module, you can use pymex.