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Anyone seen a Javascript interpreter in Python?

David LeBlanc whisper at oz.net
Wed Dec 11 15:38:09 EST 2002 
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> From: python-list-admin at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Robert Ginda
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 13:36
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> Subject: Re: Anyone seen a Javascript interpreter in Python?
>
>
> Where exactly is Venkman falling short?  It's got some problems loading
> source during page load, but you can work around that with Pretty Print
> mode.  I've debugged some fairly complicated scripts (including Venkman
> itself) without any real issues.  I've never even attempted to debug an
> XML document though, so there could be some issues there that I don't
> know about.  I'd be interested to hear specific problems or suggestions
> you might have.
>
>
> Rob.
> (The guy who wrote Venkman.)
>
> Robert Oschler wrote:
> > Only half-kidding.  Ever tried debugging some complex
> Javascript code that's
> > inserted by an XSL document for XML document processing?  If I woke up
> > tomorrow and all the mainline browsers incorporated a Python
> interpreter I
> > would have died and gone to heaven.  Maybe someone will write a
> Javascript
> > interpreter in Python and then we can modify it to do some Python level
> > excellence of traceback info.  (Yes I know about the Venkman debugger.)
> >
> > thx
> >

I would be happy if I awoke tomorrow and discovered that Mozilla had a
built-in Python!

Dave LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA
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