CPython on the Web

[azakai]

On Jan 3, 12:23 pm, Gerry Reno <gr... at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 01/03/2011 03:10 PM, azakai wrote:
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> > On Jan 2, 5:55 pm, Gerry Reno <gr... at verizon.net> wrote:
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> >> I tried printing sys.path and here is the output:
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> >> ['', '/usr/local/lib/python27.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/',
> >> '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2',
> >> '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
> >> '/usr/local/lib/lib-dynload']
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> >> Now, those paths must be on your machine because they are not on my
> >> client machine.  But the interpreter is now running on MY machine.  Well
> >> in a sandbox really.  So how is that going to work?
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> > Yeah, those are the paths on the machine where the binary was compiled
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> > Anyhow the filesystem can't (and shouldn't) be accessed from inside a
> > browser page.
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> Well, the local filesystem could be accessible with the user's
> permission and this should be an option.
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Hmm, I think this might be possible with the HTML5 File API. Would
definitely be useful here.

- azakai