[Web-SIG] [Fwd: Summer of Code preparation]

[Bill Janssen]

> > It's getting very hard to do good Web-page-understanding without a
> > javascript interpreter.  Ideally, this would execute in a Python
> > context so that each Javascript call (or statement, or expression
> > evaluation) could invoke Python code to do introspection over the
> > activity.
> 
> Do you mean like implementing the DOM in Python, and providing DOM 
> objects to Javascript?  Or actually watching the Javascript execute at 
> some level?

I meant actually watching the Javascript execute, though of course
providing the DOM as Python objects would be, as you say, a bare
minimum.  One way to this would be to translate the Javascript into
Python, and use existing introspection hooks to watch the Python
execute.

Bill