On Jun 11, 6:21 am, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2010/6/10 see <[email protected]>:
>
>
>
> > Today I (again) tried to use web.py running with Jython. I do not use
> > the web.py templating but XSLT 2 (via Saxon) instead which is also the
> > reason to use Jython at all...
>
> > I had to do two hacks in web.py, maybe it would be possible to add
> > them to the code itself?
>
> > 1. removed usage of compiler module
>
> > I simple removed these lines in template.py (~line 941) as Jython has
> > no compiler module. Guess as long as no templating is used this would
> > be fine?
>
> > # make sure code is safe
> > #        import compiler
> > #        ast = compiler.parse(code)
> > #        SafeVisitor().walk(ast, filename)
>
> > Maybe one could rewrite it as
>
> > try:
> >  import compiler
> > except ImportError, e:
> >  # alert the user that templating won't work properly
> > else:
> >  ast = compiler.parse(code)
> >  SafeVisitor().walk(ast, filename)
>
> > 2. Reloader does not work so simple removed it
>
> > In application.py ~line 652 I added a simple "return" and web.py
> > works. Reloader does not work obviously as it does not check any
> > modules. Is there any way to prevent web.py to use it in the first
> > place?
> > Problem is in line 654 mtime = os.stat(mod.__file__).st_mtime which
> > seems to raise a different (Java) exception when mod.__file__ is None.
> > One could as a catch all except or check for None before trying?
> > I guess this really is a Jython bug which probably should simple raise
> > one of the catched (AttributeError, OSError, IOError) but that change
> > will probably take sooome time...
>
> > Another annoying issue is that when defining the URL mapping like
>
> > URLS = (
> >    r'/(.*?)\/?', 'pkg.mod.Handlerclass'
> >    ...
> >    )
>
> > Jython is unable to import pkg.mod. If pkg import mod itself which in
> > Python is not needed this does work though. Again a Jython issue I
> > guess but this time easier to work around in the actual application.
>
> > Otherwise web.py and Jython work just fine. Being able to use an XSLT2
> > processor like Saxon in Jython (sadly no one available for Python...)
> > is really nice.
>
> > Any chance the two compatibility workarounds could be added to web.py?
>
> Yes. I think it will be nice to make web.py apps run on Jython.
>
> Anand

Would you think it may be incorporated into a 0.35 or 0.36 version of
web.py and when could one except such a release? ;)

Would you need any further infos or help?

thanks
Chris

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