historic grail python browser "semi-recovered"
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From: lkcl on 10 Jun 2010 12:51 On Jun 9, 10:58 pm, Thomas Jollans <tho...(a)jollans.com> wrote: > give us a copy then, just for the laughs. ^^ Post it on bitbucket, > maybe? (or send me a copy and I'll do it) http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser remember it only works on python2.4 or less right now!
From: lkcl on 10 Jun 2010 13:05 On Jun 9, 11:03 pm, rantingrick <rantingr...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 9, 4:29 pm, lkcl <luke.leigh...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > um, please don't ask me why but i foundgrail, the python-based web > >browser, and have managed to hack it into submission sufficiently to > > view e.g.http://www.google.co.uk. out of sheer apathy i happened to > > have python2.4 still installed which was the only way i could get it > > to run without having to rewrite regex expressions (which i don't > > understand). > > > if anyone else would be interested in resurrecting this historic web > >browser, just for fits and giggles, please let me know. > > Hi lkcl, > > My current conquest to bring a new (or fix the current GUI) in > Python's stdlib is receiving much resistance. I many need a project to > convince my opponents of my worth. Tell you what i do, send me a text > file with a pathname and all the line numbers that have broken regexs > using a common sep --space is fine for me-- and i'll fix them for you. > Here is a sample... ok i've committed a file REGEX.CONVERSIONS.REQUIRED into the git repository, http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser git://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser.git i used "grep -n" so it's filename:lineno: {ignore the actual stuff} unfortunately, SGMLLexer.py contains some _vast_ regexs spanning 5-6 lines, which means that a simple grep ain't gonna cut it. there's a batch of regex's spanning from line 650 to line 699 and a few more besides. of course, it has to be borne in mind that this code was written for python 1.5 initially, at a time when python xml/sax/dom/sgml code probably didn't exist. but leaving aside the fact that it all needs to be ripped up and modernised i'm more concerned about getting these 35,000 lines of code operational, doing as small transitions as possible. l.
From: MRAB on 10 Jun 2010 14:17 lkcl wrote: > On Jun 9, 11:03 pm, rantingrick <rantingr...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Jun 9, 4:29 pm, lkcl <luke.leigh...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> um, please don't ask me why but i foundgrail, the python-based web >>> browser, and have managed to hack it into submission sufficiently to >>> view e.g.http://www.google.co.uk. out of sheer apathy i happened to >>> have python2.4 still installed which was the only way i could get it >>> to run without having to rewrite regex expressions (which i don't >>> understand). >>> if anyone else would be interested in resurrecting this historic web >>> browser, just for fits and giggles, please let me know. >> Hi lkcl, >> >> My current conquest to bring a new (or fix the current GUI) in >> Python's stdlib is receiving much resistance. I many need a project to >> convince my opponents of my worth. Tell you what i do, send me a text >> file with a pathname and all the line numbers that have broken regexs >> using a common sep --space is fine for me-- and i'll fix them for you. >> Here is a sample... > > ok i've committed a file REGEX.CONVERSIONS.REQUIRED into the git > repository, > http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser > git://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser.git > > i used "grep -n" so it's filename:lineno: {ignore the actual stuff} > > unfortunately, SGMLLexer.py contains some _vast_ regexs spanning 5-6 > lines, which means that a simple grep ain't gonna cut it. there's a > batch of regex's spanning from line 650 to line 699 and a few more > besides. > > of course, it has to be borne in mind that this code was written for > python 1.5 initially, at a time when python xml/sax/dom/sgml code > probably didn't exist. > > but leaving aside the fact that it all needs to be ripped up and > modernised i'm more concerned about getting these 35,000 lines of code > operational, doing as small transitions as possible. > The regex module was called 'regex'. I see that the name 're' is used as a name in the code. As for the regexes themselves, the equivalents for the current 're' module are: regex re \( ( \) ) \| | ( \( ) \) | \) casefold IGNORECASE regex.match(...) >= 0 re.match(...)
From: lkcl on 10 Jun 2010 15:01
On Jun 10, 6:17 pm, MRAB <pyt...(a)mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > lkcl wrote: > > On Jun 9, 11:03 pm, rantingrick <rantingr...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Jun 9, 4:29 pm, lkcl <luke.leigh...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> um, please don't ask me why but i foundgrail, the python-based web > >>>browser, and have managed to hack it into submission sufficiently to > >>> view e.g.http://www.google.co.uk. out of sheer apathy i happened to > >>> have python2.4 still installed which was the only way i could get it > >>> to run without having to rewrite regex expressions (which i don't > >>> understand). > >>> if anyone else would be interested in resurrecting this historic web > >>>browser, just for fits and giggles, please let me know. > >> Hi lkcl, > > >> My current conquest to bring a new (or fix the current GUI) in > >> Python's stdlib is receiving much resistance. I many need a project to > >> convince my opponents of my worth. Tell you what i do, send me a text > >> file with a pathname and all the line numbers that have broken regexs > >> using a common sep --space is fine for me-- and i'll fix them for you. > >> Here is a sample... > > > ok i've committed a file REGEX.CONVERSIONS.REQUIRED into the git > > repository, > >http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser > > git://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser.git > > > i used "grep -n" so it's filename:lineno: {ignore the actual stuff} > > > unfortunately, SGMLLexer.py contains some _vast_ regexs spanning 5-6 > > lines, which means that a simple grep ain't gonna cut it. there's a > > batch of regex's spanning from line 650 to line 699 and a few more > > besides. > > > of course, it has to be borne in mind that this code was written for > > python 1.5 initially, at a time when python xml/sax/dom/sgml code > > probably didn't exist. > > > but leaving aside the fact that it all needs to be ripped up and > > modernised i'm more concerned about getting these 35,000 lines of code > > operational, doing as small transitions as possible. > > The regex module was called 'regex'. yes. there's a python module in 2.4 called reconvert.py which can "understand" and convert _most_ regex expressions to re. > I see that the name 're' is used as > a name in the code. bizarre, isn't it? |