On Dec 24, 12:40 pm, Nikola Skoric <nick-n...@net4u.hr> wrote:
> I0m a python newbie with PHP background. I've tried to make a web app
> from one of my python scripts (which I haven't done before) and I
> ended up with:
>
> <?php
> echo shell_exec("python foobar.py");
> ?>
> which works really nice :-DClever :) Python can work in a similar way to PHP if your server supports it, but Python also allows you to create the server itself. > For some reason I can't find no "quick and dirty python web > programming tutorial for PHP programmers" on google. :-D I don't need > a general python tutorial, I just need a tutorial on how to make a > hello world server side script with python. Any suggestions? See http://webpython.codepoint.net/cgi_hello_world for a very primitive way (and docs here: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/cgi.html ). A better way, that uses a trivial Python-based server: hello.py --- from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server def hello_app(environ, start_response): start_response("200 OK", [('Content-Type','text/plain')]) return "Hello world!" httpd = make_server('', 8000, hello_app) print "Serving HTTP on port 8000..." httpd.serve_forever() --- Then: $ python hello.py Serving HTTP on port 8000... localhost - - [24/Dec/2008 13:11:32] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 12 (see http://docs.python.org/dev/library/wsgiref.html#module-wsgiref.simple_server ) You can use better Python-based servers with handy features for testing: http://projects.wagner-flo.net/wsgi-serve/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/James/0.7.1 Now, to ease things, you can have Python working more like PHP. First, server support. What HTTP server are you using? For starting up, mod_python (http://www.modpython.org/) isn't that bad, but there are better alternatives: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/ , http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-fastcgi/1.1 and http://python.ca/scgi/ Then, there are many ways of getting the PHP feel (embedding in pages, etc.): http://www.modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/pyapi-psp.html#pyapi-psp http://nick.borko.org/pse/examples/php_example.html http://snakelets.sourceforge.net/ (development stopped) http://www.webwareforpython.org/PSP/Docs/index.html HTH, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
