On 17 jun, 21:11, Bradley Hintze <bradle...@aggiemail.usu.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie to anything web related, I know a bit of HTML though. > I've been programing in python for a year or so so I know the language > at an intermediate level. I am wondering if its possible to get info > from an HTML form and pass it to my python code and return a page > based on the code executed. All of my web searches have been > fruitless as I quickly get lost in the jargon and perhaps not sure > what phrase i should search. Any help would be appreciated. > > Thank you, > Bradley
Hi Bradley, If I understand correctly, you want to do the following: 1. Fill in a HTML form in a client (web browser) 2. Send the form to a webserver 3. Have the webserver extract the information from the form 4. Send the information to a python program for processing 5. Generate a new HTML page in python based on the information in step 4 6. Send the newly generated page back to the client Possible solutions depend a little on the constraints and/or options you have for the webserver. If you are free in your choices I would suggest to start with cherrypy (www.cherrypy.org) for a webserver. It is simple to start with, very powerfull and well documented. This would cover steps 3 and 4. For step 5 I suggest you either use the python builtin string template facility string.Template (for simple things). If you want more power have a look at Genshi http://genshi.edgewall.org. The two options I mention above help you to understand whats going on. If you feel comfortable with this, you can take a look at python web frameworks like Django or Turbogears (or many others). Good luck and keep us posted with what your progress. Regards, Marco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
