Browser plug-in for Python?

2005-07-12 Thread Bill Janssen
Has anyone written a browser plug-in for Python, similar to the Java plug-in that Sun has switched to for applets? Bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Browser plug-in for Python?

2005-07-12 Thread Jeff Epler
Back in the day there was 'grail', which was a browser in its own right. There may also have been a plug-in for other browsers, but I don't know any real details about them. Python itself has deprecated the 'restricted execution' environment it had in previous versions, because ways to break out

Re: Browser plug-in for Python?

2005-07-12 Thread Bill Janssen
Yes, thanks, back in the day I used Grail and played with rexec. I notice that one of the Summer of Code projects was to recreate rexec, but don't know if it was funded. Presumably a Firefox plug-in for Python would restrict the execution environment in some safe way, and provide some kind of UI