Probably a dumb question

[Ian Maurer]

In article <394106F9.A58F87CE at micron.net>,
  Peter Immarco <android at micron.net> wrote:
> Hi,  still waiting for my two books on Python from Amazon.  I know
> Python is a full programming language so it can be used on web servers
> for server side processing, but what about browser side processing?
Can
> I also use it to create an 'applet' that runs in a compatible browser?
> I'm guessing not likely because I don't think IE4+ or Netscape
> Communicator support Python but I'm hoping I'm wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter.
>
>

If the platform you are developing for is windows then Internet
Explorer 4+ will work since it supports Active Scripting. You can plug
in python as your script language (instead of Javascript or VBScript)
and it should work. I never tried it, but it's in Mark Hammond and Andy
Robinson's Python Programming on Win32, so it must be true (page
437). :)

The major hurdle for deployment is that you will need to download and
install Python AND the win32 extensions onto the client machine.

Good Luck,
Ian Maurer

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