On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:52 AM, <baseelin...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> So, my question is what is the best method to be able to have a user
> enter specific data on a web page, have that data be passed to the
> Python script and then have the output returned to the web page?
> Essentially, I want to use a web based front end to accomplish the
> same thing that the IDLE GUI does, (asks me a few questions, I answer
> them, it builds a configuration file and prints it to the screen).
>
>
There isn't a best way, really.
I'm partial to CherryPy. A minimal example would look like so:
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import cherrypy
class Root(object):
page = "<html><head><title></title></head><body>%s</body></html>"
@cherrypy.expose
def enter_data(self, data):
return self.page % ("You entered: " + data,)
@cherrypy.expose
def index(self):
form = """
<form id="aform" name="aform" action="enter_data" method="POST">
<textarea name="data">Enter some stuff here</textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</form>
"""
return self.page % form
if __name__ == '__main__':
cherrypy.quickstart(Root())
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Note, I wouldn't actually recommend using string building like that for
returning pages unless your app is seriously trivial. I use Genshi for
templating, the tutorial that they have is very nice (and uses cherrypy).
There's a plethora of different ways to build web apps in python. In all
reality, you should probably try out a few and see what suits your tastes.
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