CPython on the Web

[azakai]

On Jan 2, 5:55 pm, Gerry Reno <gr... at verizon.net> wrote:
> I tried printing sys.path and here is the output:
>
> ['', '/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']
>
> 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?
>

Yeah, those are the paths on the machine where the binary was compiled
(so, they are the standard paths on ubuntu).

Anyhow the filesystem can't (and shouldn't) be accessed from inside a
browser page. I think we will implement a minimal virtual filesystem
here, just enough for stuff to work. The actual implementation would
use HTML5 features like local storage etc.

- azakai