This library allows your Java program to interface very easily with the Python world. It uses the Pyro protocol to call methods on remote objects. (See https://github.com/irmen/Pyro4). To that end, it also contains and uses a feature complete pickle protocol implementation -read and write- to exchange data with Pyro/Python.
Pyrolite only implements part of the client side Pyro library, hence its name 'lite'... But because Pyrolite has no dependencies, it is a much lighter way to use Pyro from Java/.NET than a solution with jython+pyro or IronPython+Pyro would provide. So if you don't need Pyro's full feature set, and don't require your Java/.NET code to host Pyro objects itself, Pyrolite may be a good choice to connect java or .NET and python.
Version 4.17 changes:
PICKLE FIXES:
Fixed decode crash of escaped single quote (\') that sometimes occurs in protocol level 0 pickled strings.
Made even more fields of the Unpickler class protected so they can be accessed in a subclass.
Implemented pickle's persistent ID functionality via the new persistentLoad method on the Unpickler, and the PERSID/BINPERSID opcodes.
Implemented pickle opcodes OBJ and INST (rarely encountered, but still).