README.md

PyPI Warning

Note that the nodejs package on PyPI has been passed on to another user that is actively bundling node binaries. See https://github.com/samwillis/nodejs-pypi for more information.

If you want to use the legacy version of this package, you can install it with pip install nodejs==0.1.1 or pin it to nodejs==0.1.1 in your requirements.txt.

python-nodejs

Python bindings and utils for Node.js and io.js.

from nodejs.bindings import node_run

stderr, stdout = node_run('/path/to/some/file.js', '--some-argument')

Installation

pip install nodejs==0.1.1

Bindings

nodejs.bindings.node_run()

Invokes Node with the arguments provided and return the resulting stderr and stdout.

from nodejs.bindings import node_run

stderr, stdout = node_run('/path/to/some/file.js', '--some-argument')

nodejs.bindings.ensure_installed()

Raises an exception if node is not installed.

nodejs.bindings.ensure_version_gte()

Raises an exception if the installed version of node is less than the version required.

Arguments:

version_required: a tuple containing the minimum version required.

from nodejs.bindings import ensure_node_version_gte

ensure_node_version_gte((0, 10, 0,))

nodejs.bindings.is_installed

A boolean indicating if Node is installed.

nodejs.bindings.version

A tuple containing the version of Node installed. For example, (0, 10, 33)

nodejs.bindings.version_raw

A string containing the raw version returned from Node. For example, 'v0.10.33'

Running the tests

mkvirtualenv python-nodejs
pip install -r requirements.txt
nosetests