Calling JavaScript inside the webbrowser module

[Anders Gunnarsson]

Hi!

Is there anyway to communicate with JavaScript inside a website opened via the webbrowser module?

| import webbrowser
| webbrowser.open('http://python.org')

Here I'd like to do something like webbrowser.call('alert(1)')
and I'd like to be able to call the python app from javascript too.

I've looked at pywebkitgtk, but it's messy running on win32.

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Hi!

Is there anyway to communicate with JavaScript inside a website opened via the webbrowser module?

| import webbrowser
| webbrowser.open('http://python.org')

The documentation for Python 2.5 doesn't indicate any such
standardized method. From what I can tell, the default behavior is to
invoke the system defined browser (which could be anything including a
text-only program for a console system).

There does appear to be a .get() method in which you can ask for a
specific browser type -- but you'd still have to handle the case of the
browser not being available...

After that, it would be dependent upon whatever API the browser
opens up to the outside world. For Firefox, that would be XPCOM:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPCOM