Python Equivalent to the Google Web Toolkit in the Works

CGIDir
Thursday, May 25, 2006; 03:31 AM

Software engineer James Tauber successfully built a Python equivalent to the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), one "that can handle half the Hello World example."  The announcement was made at his blog at http://jtauber.com/blog/ .

According to the author, "it sounds small but the pieces are largely all there in a primitive state.. Now it's just a case of incrementally improving each of these areas":

• a Python-to-JavaScript translator
• Python datatypes
• UI widgets written in Python
• boiler plate HTML

You can see the result in the latest revision at http://pyworks.org/svn/py-gwt/hello-experiment/ .

GWT allows developers to write the front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts the Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.