Professional IronPython

considering Some of the better Solutions
There are a number of quick and easy fixes for your CPython library problems. In most cases, all 
you do is download the alternative you need, place it into the right IronPython folder, and you 
have the support you require. The following list provides information about a number of these 
third-party solutions.
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ZLib Module for IronPython: Download this solution from 
http://bitbucket.org/jdhardy/
ironpythonzlib/overview/
. After you download the ZIP file, simply unzip it and place the 
resulting files in your 
\Program Files\IronPython 2.6\DLLs
folder to obtain 
zlib
module 
support. (You’ll probably have to create the DLLs subfolder because it doesn’t exist by default.)
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Obtaining Third-Party Solutions
 
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subprocess.py
: Download this solution from 
http://bitbucket.org/jdhardy/code/
src/
. This same page has 
sqlserver_backend.py
, which is a SQL Server backend for Trac. 
After you download the 
subprocess.py
file, add it to the 
\Program Files\IronPython 2.6\
Lib\site-packages
folder to obtain 
subprocess
module support.
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pyexpat.py
: Download this solution from 
https://fepy.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/
fepy/trunk/lib/
. This same page has a wealth of other 
.py
files you can use with IronPython. 
After you download 
pyexpat.py
, copy it to the 
\Program Files\IronPython 2.6\Lib\xml\
parsers
folder and rename the file to 
expat.py
to obtain 
expat
module support.