Using python as client-side scripting language in IE 6

[Peter Hansen]

John Roth wrote:
> 
> "popov" <google at evpopov.com> wrote:
> > I ran win32comext\axscript\client\pyscript.py and pyscript_rexec.py to
> > register python as a scripting engine. No errors from those scripts.
> >
> > As I understand it and from what I have read in this forum and
> > elsewhere, it should work, but it doesn't: what am I doing wrong ?
> 
> I doubt if it will work for a while. It doesn't work on my system
> either, and a quick check of the pyscript_rexec.py module says
> that it will enable Rexec support. Rexec support was removed from
> base Python in release 2.2.3 and later, so I doubt if this is ever
> going to work until ActiveState (or Mark Hammond) changes the
> base code to use Exec instead of RExec.

I was just trying this myself and had the same lack of results.
I note however that while pyscript_rexec.py uses the Rexec support
and might not work for reasons John describes, pyscript.py claims not
to do that, and seems to be supposed to work.  Yet it doesn't....

Anyone tried this lately with success?

For the record, I was trying on a vanilla Win98 machine with Py2.3.2.1
and the latest win32all as well.  (The relevant test scripts execute
okay, showing that the issue is with IE alone, not with the basic
capability that allows ActiveX script hosting with Python.)

-Peter