[Tutor] OT: Coffeescript and Python

[Emile van Sebille]

On 9/6/2013 3:47 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> This is somewhat off topic so replies offlist may be appropriate.

I can fix that.  :)

Are you familiar with pyjs, which provides python to javascript 
capabilities? (see http://pyjs.org/)

Is there any reason to prefer one over the other?

Emile


> I've just come across coffeescript(*) and started playing with it.
> It seems to share a lot with Python and as such seems like a good
> replacement for Javascript in client side web code. I'm wondering if
> anyone here has used coffeescript with any of the Python web frameworks?
> Specifically any of Turbogears, Django or Pylons?
>
> (*)For any similarly afflicted souls, coffeescript is a language that
> compiles into pure (portable) javascript so it has no dependency issues
> with webservers or browsers but is easier to read/write. At least,
> that's the theory, I'm too early into it to be sure it works as
> advertised, but it looks promising.
>