Python scripting [was: Re: emacs speedbar for python mode?]

[Bud Rogers]

François Pinard wrote:

> If I could only script Emacs with Python!  Emacs LISP is not so bad,
> it has a lot of virtues, yet writing Scheme or Python is more
> pleasurable to me.
 
> In these days, soon in the morning, before I'm fully awake, I vaguely
> dream of big things, like developing semi-automatic Emacs LISP to
> Python converters (a bit like CWeb does for Knuth Pascal code) and
> with this, whatever would be necessary to replace or interface with
> the Emacs C core. :-) In my dreams still, I start the exercise with
> Gnus or Calc,
> as the result would be quite useful in itself.  Sigh!

I have had similar thoughts.  Imagine a programmer's editor of the 
calibre of [x]emacs that used python as a built in extension language 
in the same way that emacs uses lisp.  

-- 
Bud Rogers <budr at sirinet.net>   http://www.sirinet.net/~budr
All things in moderation.  And not too much moderation either.