Flython?

[Guyon Morée]

You can also write your objects in python and expose them as xml-rpc/soap.
Then use them from flash...



"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
news:BeudnTybEKkXXIbcRVn-hQ at powergate.ca...
> Just been looking at Flash and ActionScript...
>
> In the vein of Jython, I wonder what it would take to build
> a Flython?  (Lousy name, I know.)  That would take Python
> source, presumably a subset since some things couldn't be supported,
> and compile it into ActionScript bytecode (aka the bytecode compiled
> from ECMAScript source for the Macromedia Flash player environment).
>
> With that, it would be pretty easy to write applications which
> have a Flash front end, but with pretty much all the logic
> on front and back implemented in Python.
>
> There doesn't seem to be any mention of such an idea on
> the web yet.  A search turns up only part of a thread
> where Cameron Laird asked about marrying Flash and Python
> and I replied with a reference to use of Flash in
> Twisted's LivePage...
> (http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=vpdqlca3vkvp5c%40corp.supernews.com)
>
> -Peter