ListFromJython.scala

import javax.script._
import org.python.core._
import org.python.util._
import java.util.List

def pythonInterpreterTest {
  val interp = new PythonInterpreter
  interp.exec("commandList = [\"meh\"]")
  val pyObj = interp.get("commandList")
  val jObj = pyObj.__tojava__(classOf[Object])
  // In the above using classOf[List[Object]] in __tojava__ I got an Object
  // rather than a List[Object].  I'm not sure how that occurred.
  val jList = jObj.asInstanceOf[List[Object]]
  println(jList.size)
}

def jsr223PythonInterpreterTest {
  val interp = new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("python")
  interp.eval("commandList = [\"meh\"]")
  val obj = interp.get("commandList")
  val jList = obj.asInstanceOf[List[Object]]
  println(jList.size)
}