[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Of course, I'm not talking about something that would transform
> any Python code into semantically JavaScript code, but simply
> something that would analyze a "restricted" Python source file,
> and spit out equivalent JavaScript. The big advantage (as far
> as I'm concerned) is that one could make use of some of the
> syntactic shortcuts that JavaScript doesn't offer, that the Python
> syntax checker generally does a better job than the JS one, and
> (perhaps most importantly) this could be configured to put in
> 'instrumentation',
> such as checks to make sure than an attempt to access an undefined
> attribute actually throws an error.
>
> Color me curious,
> Ken
>
Take a look at the PyPy project, which has produced a JavaScript
back-end (thugh I suspect it's more of a curiosity than a practical
solution). It might suit your needs, though, and they've had a Summer of
Code project going on it.
http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/news.html
and specifically
http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/getting-started.html
regards
Steve
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