I'd like to call a Python function from JavaScript code, because there isn't an alternative in JavaScript for doing what I want. Is this possible? Could you adjust the below snippet to work?
JavaScript code:
var tag = document.getElementsByTagName("p")[0];
text = tag.innerHTML;
// Here I would like to call the Python interpreter with Python function
arrOfStrings = openSomehowPythonInterpreter("~/pythoncode.py", "processParagraph(text)");
~/pythoncode.py
contains functions using advanced libraries that don't have an easy to write equivalent in JavaScript:
import nltk # is not in JavaScript
def processParagraph(text):
...
nltk calls
...
return lst # returns a list of strings (will be converted to JavaScript array)
All you need is to make an ajax request to your pythoncode. You can do this with jquery http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/, or use just javascript
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "~/pythoncode.py",
data: { param: text}
}).done(function( o ) {
// do something
});