[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) writes: > Kenneth McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I know that there's some work out there to let Python make use of > > Javascript (Spidermonkey) via (I assume) some sort of bridging C/C++ > > code. Anyone know of efforts to allow the reverse? I'd really like to > > make use of Python when doing Mozilla DOM programming, and I can never > > get a clear idea of when PyXPCOM might be available to those of us who > > don't know the ins and outs of compiling Mozilla, and its XPCOM > > structures. So if there was an easy way to simply and quickly pass > > even just strings back and forth between Python and Moz Javascript, > > that would make certain things a heck of a lot easier. > > I too wonder what happened to Mark Hammond's work on the > DOM_AGNOSTIC_2 branch a year or so back. Might be nice to be able to > write Firefox extensions in Python. > > Practically, I know that e.g. the firefox htmltidy extension (I forget > the name) contains binaries built from C code, not just JS, so I guess > you could write a Firefox extension that embeds CPython in a similar > way.
There are also some compilers for generating JS from Python (or Python-like) source. The pyjamas project has one (pyjamas is currently a port of GWT to Python), and I believe PyPy has a JS backend too. Both of those are serious work but experimental. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
