[Tutor] How to get smooth, terminal-like interaction over the web

[Kent Johnson]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:50 PM, tchomby <tchomby at googlemail.com> wrote:
> It's a simple text-based program, the interaction would work perfectly in a
> terminal with the computer printing out lines of text to the user, and the user
> typing in lines of text and pressing return, and this is the kind of
> interaction I want to enable on a web page.
>
> Can anyone point me in the direction I should be looking, if I want to
> implement this kind of interaction over the net using python?

You might look for chat programs. IIRC Twisted includes a demo chat
server. Or these might be useful models:
http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html
http://nlp-addiction.com/eliza/

Kent