> I'm an old programmer coming from a cobol background and started to > learn python. I'm using javasript for web based applications but after I > started to learn python, the javascript language started to seem ugly to > me. Now I'm wondering why there is java support on web browsers but no > python support? there is even a vbscript support inside MS-IE but there > is no python support. it would be really nice and easy for me to use > python instead of javascript to write those ajax scripts. > > Please tell me, is there a python substitude for JRE ?
Java has nothing to do with javascript. I guess you are really asking about javascript so let's forget about java. Having a full python runtime in a browser would be a really bad idea because imagine a website telling your browser to "import os ; os.unlink( 'your_secret_very_important_file' )". If you want to write your browser client code nevertheless in python you can use pypy [1] to translate it into javascript. This is also what I do and it works pretty well in conjunction with MochiKit [2]. HTH, Daniel [1] http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/news.html [2] http://mochikit.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list