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Description: The Python runtime on the JVM

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The Jython project provides implementations of Python in Java , providing to Python the benefits of running on the JVM and access to classes written in Java. The current release (a Jython 2.7.x) only supports Python 2 (sorry). There is work towards a Python 3 in the project’s GitHub repository.

Jython implementations are freely available for both commercial and non-commercial use. They are distributed with source code under the PSF License v2 .

Jython is complementary to Java and is especially suited for the following tasks:

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