Flython?
Christopher T King
squirrel at WPI.EDU
Thu Aug 12 16:47:08 EDT 2004
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Peter Hansen wrote:
> In the vein of Jython, I wonder what it would take to build
> a Flython? (Lousy name, I know.) That would take Python
> source, presumably a subset since some things couldn't be supported,
> and compile it into ActionScript bytecode (aka the bytecode compiled
> from ECMAScript source for the Macromedia Flash player environment).
I don't know much about ActionScript bytecode, but I think a general
Python -> ECMAScript translator wouldn't be too hard (presuming a Python
subset is acceptable). ECMAScript variables are untyped, so that should
ease translation some. Sounds like my weekend project!
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