I have been using Python for several years now and although my main occupation is not directly related to writing code I have been able to use Python to accomplish writing complex configuration files and analyzing data against standards, etc. I now have a requirement to provide a web based interface rather than say using the IDLE GUI for several reasons, (allowing others to use a server based Python script and to provide a slicker user interface via the users web browser).
As I wade into very new territory I see articles on PHP, mod_python, Python Server Pages, CGI, Zope, Python in PHP, CherryPy, Pylons, etc., etc. It's all pretty confusing and while one method may work to accomplish the task at hand someone with far greater experience may look at the situation and say, "um, yeah, it will work that way but it would have been a whole lot easier if you had done it this way...". 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). A basic example can be found at http://webpython.codepoint.net/wsgi_request_parsing_post using httpd in Python but its seems very basic. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
