On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:47:12AM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: -> Titus Brown wrote: -> > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:39:59AM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: -> > -> Hi guys... looks like Google SoC is back on again. I'm hoping we get -> > -> some good web stuff going on, so people should start thinking. Also -> > -> there's two wiki pages where you can add project ideas: -> > -> http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode and the somewhat out-of-date -> > -> (and needs cleaning) page from last year: -> > -> http://wiki.python.org/moin/CodingProjectIdeas -> > -> > I'm thinking of proposing a project to build a JavaScript interpreter -> > interface for Python; the goal (for me) is to get twill/mechanize to -> > understand JavaScript. I think the project has wider applications, -> > but I'm not sure what people actually want to do with JavaScript. -> > I could imagine server-side parsing of javascript, and/or integration of -> > javascript and python code. Thoughts? -> -> Do you mean like integrating Mozilla's Spidermonkey with Python? That -> would be a very approachable and useful project, I think. It even gets -> us a restricted execution environment ;)
Yes, something like this. Personally I'd be happy to get good twill/mechanize integration, but methinks a complete wrapper that is then hooked into twill/mechanize is the proper way to go. Then it would be of use to others. -> I'm personally non-plussed by deeper integration, like parsing -> Javascript in Python or otherwise mingling the runtimes. But I know -> other people find the idea of that sort of thing much more appealing -> than I do. Regardless of motivation, I think the simpler Spidermonkey -> integration would be more useful *and* much easier. Definitely an -> interesting idea -- and the more I think about the restricted execution -> aspect, the more plausibly useful that sounds. (Rich templating -> languages using Javascript?) -> -> I think Brett Cannon is doing something specifically related to Python -> and Javascript for his doctorate, though what exactly that entails is a -> little less clear to me -- I think it's more related to Python in the -> browser, which is kind of the flip side of this. I'll look into it, thanks! --titus _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
