Daniel Hast wrote:
A project I'm currently working on involves creating a web-delivered applet, preferably one that would run using Java. I don't know Java very well, so I am looking for some way to do this with wxPython. I'm considering using the Jythonc compiler to turn a Python program into Java bytecode, but I have no idea if this would work. Can I create a program using wxPython that will run as a Java applet after compiling it with Jythonc? For that matter, does wxPython even work with Jython?
A few minutes thought should give you the answer to this. wxPython is essentially an intelligent wrapper around wxWidgets, which is a compiled C++ library. If wxPython were 100% Python, you might be able to make it work in Jython, but you can't deliver Java byte codes that depend on a native-compiled library.
If you want to have some fun and are thinking with an eye toward the future, you might consider IronPython and Silverlight. IronPython is the .NET version of Python that generates the same byte code as C# and VB. It can be delivered over the web, and Silverlight looks like it should be great fun. There's an IronPython mailing list here:
http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
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