I want to incorporate Python into my Java programs for scripting. I was just wondering if I can use regular Python instead of JPython for scripting? If I can't , is JPython and Python similar in syntax, or would I have to relearn JPython? Thanks in advance.

JPython has been called Jython for the last few years. It is largely identical to Python in syntax, but in many places it uses Java's class libraries in place of Python's.