[reportlab-users] IronPython and ReportLab

[Tony Meyer]

(For context, I've only ever used ReportLab with CPython.  I do use
IronPython for other things, though).


> Does ironpython support unicode directly ie u'Hello World'?


Yes.  IronPython is like Python 3.x in that there are only unicode
strings (`str is unicode` evaluates to True).


> As to why reportlab takes so long to execute I cannot say.


IronPython is faster than CPython with some things, but CPython is
much, much faster at starting up than IronPython.  I suspect that
Marco is just seeing the regular slow startup of IronPython.

Cheers,
Tony