Is it possible to write web-based GUI using Python?

William wilk-spamout at flibuste.net
Fri Nov 29 05:50:15 EST 2002


stephan.diehl at gmx.net (Stephan Diehl) writes:

> "David Mitchell" <djmitchell at NOSPAM.optushome.com.au> wrote in message news:<pan.2002.11.27.20.00.00.396116 at NOSPAM.optushome.com.au>...
> > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:05:34 +0000, Pierre Rouleau wrote:
> > 
> > (snip)
> > > 
> > > What I'd like to be able to do is implement a complete GUI-based control 
> > > application (with buttons, slider, whatever widgets the app needs) 
> > > accessible over the web.
> > > 
> > > Is this possble with Python?  If so, where the best place to start looking?
> > 
> > I'm looking for exactly the same thing.  I know Perl has the
> > CGI::Widget::* modules which do pretty much exactly this, but I don't want
> > to use Perl for this particular project.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Dave Mitchell
> 
> While researching the web about the same question, I found
> http://www.nextapp.com/products/echo/
> With that (ahem) Java Framework, it is possible (at least they claim)
> to write a web application just like a normal GUI application.
> On the Python side, at least Alex Martelli has thought about providing
> a HTML backend to anygui
> (http://anygui.sourceforge.net/platforms.php).
> If this ever worked it'd had the advantage to have one codebase for
> the webapp and a native GUI for the same app.
> If one is only looking into a way to separate HTML and programming
> logic, Cheetah (cheetahtemplate.org) can be used to write a kind of
> widget set.

For me, i search the opposite... Design a web application and running it
without external browser.
I mean embed a web browser like gecko or activex ?

Any idea to do it ?

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