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Chrome Extension: Python Shell

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48 pointsalifaziz23 comments

I love Python and all, but how is this extension useful? or are people just liking this extension because it is "cool"?

Chrome netbooks

IMHO, it feels quite awkward to have GNU/Linux system under the hood, and "run" Python by sending requests to some interpreter-hosting third-party service.

However, I would extremely enjoy Python interpreter being hooked with Chrom{e,ium}, either as Python-to-Javascript compiler, or native code plugin. Preferably, with ability to interact with DOM and Javascript.

"IMHO, it feels quite awkward to have GNU/Linux system under the hood, and "run" <application> by <some awkward way>"

You just summed up my feeling of using android. and why i'm not exited the slightest by the chrome netbooks.

Come on, they wanted to give thousands of devs the chance to re-implement C apps in java. Poorly. Under the delusion that they can become ramen-profitable one day.

OTOH, Angry Birds is awesome, so I suppose it wasn't a total waste.

It's useful for when you're doing stuff on a Chrome OS computer. You can't pop open a shell running Python.

All these hacks to route around limitations of web-based computers seem like such a step backwards. We already have a nice python interpreter. Why are we reinventing it in javascript?

It seems this shell does not automate the browser, or?

I use iMacros for web browser automation. Now, if iMacros would understand Python... ;)

I guess that's one answer.

>>> 2+2

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <title>401 Unauthorized</title> <h1>Unauthorized</h1> <p>The server could not verify that you are authorized to access the URL requested. You either supplied the wrong credentials (e.g. a bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.</p><p>In case you are allowed to request the document, please check your user-id and password and try again.</p>

>>> 2+2

However,

>>> import gc

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">

<title>500 Internal Server Error</title>

<h1>Internal Server Error</h1>

<p>The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the application.</p>

Comment from the extension page:

"Nice, but beware. This thing appears to send everything you type in the shell to a remote computer, so don't use it as a scratch space for personal information."

On that note, why does it ask for permission to view browser history?

The Chrome extensions permissioning system is not specific enough.

How is a Python shell related to the browser? I mean if you had a Python API available to google chrome, or if you could browse the DOM tree it would be useful..

http://code.google.com/p/pywebkitgtk/

There is a python shell plugin for gedit that gives you access to your text document.

If someone could do that for this plugin, i.e. Giving you access to the main tab/window object, that would be seriously cool. Prototyping screen scraping, building easy extentions using python, and hacking a quick change into a website would all be so easy.

That's what I was hoping to find when I saw that link. However, you could probably do something like this. I think two ways to implement this are immediately obvious:

1. Create bookmarklet/extension that injects Silverlight's IronPython. This can already work with live DOM and all you need to do is create a nice REPL.

2. Have pyjamas running in background and compiling Python->Javascript on the fly.

For Mozilla:

http://pyxpcomext.mozdev.org/

http://pyxpcomext.mozdev.org/samples.html

Thanks for this link... This should make for a cool extension

http://shell.appspot.com/

http://yarriba.appspot.com/

One can also take a look at Crunchy. [ http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/ ]

Three major differences: Crunchy requires Python to be installed on your computer; nothing is sent to a remote server; Crunchy is currently only guaranteed to work on Firefox. On this last point, it is likely to stay that way for a while as I have little time these days to work on it. ;-)

I already have Windows + P as my 'gnome-terminal --command "python"' keybinding (in Ubuntu), but I'm sure I'll find a use for this.

os.listdir(".//") I guess the author made it open source :).

Anyways you cannot write, I'v been poking around a bit but it appears he is using a lexer/parser.

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