Tiddlywiki type project in Python?

[R. P. Dillon]

I've been doing some work on a didiwiki-like program written in Python. 
  Since Python is embedded in browsers, the didwiki approach make sense: 
write the server in your language of choice (didwiki uses C), and lay 
the necessary (simple) wiki code on top of the server.  Roll the entire 
thing into a single executable, and you have a personal wiki.  The catch 
is that you must run the executable before you can access your wiki, but 
it is a small price to pay IMHO.

Anyway, I'll either GPL or public-domain my code when I'm finished with 
it and I'll post it here.  My hope is it will be as fast on a reasonably 
modern computer as didiwiki is.

Rick

jkn wrote:
> Hi Bruno
> 
> [...]
>>> I don't know Javascript (although it looks moderately simple from a
>>> brief peruse,
>> It's not as simple as it may seem at first look. There are some real
>> gotchas. But if you want a more pythonic javascript, you should have a
>> look at mochikit.
> 
> OK, thanks for the pointer
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> and I know enough languages to know I'll be able to pick
>>> it up); however I do know and use Python, although not nuch in a
>>> web-oriented way. Since unlike JS, python is at least pre-compiled, I
>>> have hopes that this would make things quicker. I do appreciate that JS
>>> is built into the browser, which might make my Python approach slower.
>>> I'm not sure of the 'architectural' approach to this; any suggestions,
>>> and maybe pointers to previous work?
>> I don't really understand what you're after here, since TiddlyWikiLikes
>> can *not* work without javascript.
> 
> Well, that may be an/the answer, since another form of my question
> would be 'how can I write a TiddlyWikiLike using Python instead of JS'
> ;-). I appreciate that it might involve, for instance, a local server.
> Does the idea of embedding python in a browser instead of Javascript
> make any sense at all?
> 
>> Anyway, there's at least a Zope-based TiddlyWikiLike, so you may want to
>> have a look here:
>> http://ziddlywiki.org/
>>
> 
> Thanks again
> 
>     jon N
> 

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