RE: [Jython-dev] PyServlet destroy, ns

[Robert W. B. <rb...@di...>]

Hi David,

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, David Syer wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert W. Bill [mailto:rb...@di...]
> > Sent: 14 February 2001 02:45
> > To: jyt...@li...
>
> > 1. an interpreter instance per PyServlet- overkill?
> > 2. extract and insert servlet and namespace into and from the interpreter
> > for each request- messy?
> > 3. execute the file, class, and servlet methods with Py.exec methods-
> > visually appealing, but not common practice, maybe for a
> > reason I thought :)
>
> > I'm sure there's a better way that I'm missing though.
>
> Again I think people are trying to make this more complicated than it needs
> to be.  In fact the Java classloading 'problem' that was discussed earlier
> this week is the best solution to the namespace problem.  I think all you
> need to do is make a separate web-app for each namespace you need.  I can't
> think of why you'd want to break the python namespace convention within an
> app.  If that is wrong, please explain.

Sorry about the confusion.  Before PyServlet.class was a part of the util
package, I was using my own tool called PyMapping, and referred to the .py
files as PyServlets.  My own invented lingo has created the confusion
between PyServlet and .py files- sorry.

The module global namespace of the .py files within a single webapp is
what I meant to say for each reference to "PyServlet".

No, I'm not trying to break the python namespace.
Python namespace convention would be that a module global var named
"foo" could be used in multiple modules safely as it would be
unique to those modules.  PyServlet treats all .py file's module globals
as in a single namespace- *not* like python namespace convention.
The idea was to fix namespaces to work as python folk expect them to
work- module globals are safe in Python, why not in python servlets?

Admittedly, this sense of convention may be the only advantage.  Nobody on
the lists sees it as valuable, I don't need it, and I just thought it
would be nice if it was more like python.  Not a big deal either way.

-Robert