I'd like to use my webserver to distribute some simple python physics apps. Ideally, I'd like to use some simple form to input a few pieces of data, call a python program, and return some image from a plot or some other rendering. This is easy to do using CGI, but I was wondering whether anyone on the list could recommend that would look a little more polished and professional.
Let's say I want to input a wave vector k, and then input a plot of sin(k*x). I would like to have a simple form input for k, and then display an image of the plot. What I'm doing is a little more varied than this, but the common thread is that in each application I need to input several pieces of data and then display some image. I can probably think of 20 different applications right off the bat that I'd like to deploy. The idea behind this is to put together some simple toy models for quantum computing qubits that my experimental collaborators can play with without having to install Python, NumPy, and MatPlotLib themselves. (I understand, of course, that such an installation might be "good for them", but I'd rather not fight that battle just now.) I could, of course, write a Jython applet for this, but this would require my re-learning how to use the Java API, and it has been a few years for me. Do any of the AJAX frameworks for Python compare in simplicity to writing a simple CGI script? I've been impressed with web.py, since it seems pretty easy to use, but I would go to the trouble of learning one of the bigger frameworks if they would provide a more elegant solution. My web skillz are obviously several years out of date, so I'd like some guidance on the best way to update them. Thanks in advance, Rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
