Graal Python - GraalVM Community Edition 1.0 RC12

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 RC12:

• Support the __class__ variable in the class scope
• Support module-level docstrings
• Initial support for the venv standard-library tool
• Initial support for the built-in _bz2 module
• Initial support for the pandas package
• Initial support for OSError subclasses based on the errno of the exception
• Fix bytearray inplace add to return the same object
• Fix access to standard Python methods (__repr__, __str__, __len__ and the like) for foreign objects