Sascha Peilicke wrote: > > ... Wouldn't it be cool to have our favorite > language at hand when developing a web-app?
If you're don't mind having a bit of a different model, PyPy might be interesting for you. They have a (relatively complete) Python to JavaScript convertor, which allows you to write and test your code in RPython, a subset of Python that's a little less dynamic (so not Python syntax with JS semantics or anything), and when done convert it to JavaScript to execute in the browser. Although the feature is not as mature as some other parts of PyPy, and even though RPython is by far not as nice to write and debug as Python is, it's not a bad platform to work on (well, not as bad as JS is generally percieved at least ;) and there are some nice additional tricks provided too (such as a simple RPC thingie over XMLHttpRequest/JSON). Also, there are DOM and XMLHttpRequest wrappers to allow testing client-side code in a plain interpreter, which might be useful for you to base your code on if you decide to give it a go... For more information, see http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/js/using.html By the way, there once was an Active-X plugin for Python too, but iirc that was cancelled because it's very hard, if not impossible, to sandbox the interpreter properly... Cheers, Guido Wesdorp _______________________________________________ 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
