Re: How do I run a python program from an internet address?
Albert albertsu...@gmail.com writes: I have a small text based python program that I want to make available to people who might be behind a firewall or can't install python on their office computers, but can access the internet. What kind of people? I.e. is it something you're doing for work, where the users are (say) your co-workers? If you're just asking the simplest way to put a python script on a web page, I'd say it's to write a cgi and put it behind a normal web server. I'd avoid stuff like Google app server if possible, especially if there are any privacy concerns about the data going into the program. I much prefer to use cheap virtual servers even though I have to pay for them. They are amazingly affordable: you can get a 128MB server with enough resources for typical personal websites for a couple USD a month. That approach does require you to know a little bit about server administration but it's not that big a deal. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I run a python program from an internet address?
What would be the best way to figure out how to do this? I looked at Google app engine tutorial, but can't figure out how that will help we get the code into the cloud so I can access it from any browser. GAE is quite a good option, since it includes free hosting. You should be able to get started just by downloading the SDK and making your app work locally. It includes a little development server so you can see what your users will see in your own browser. In this way, you don't have to do anything with the web until everything is ready, then you just press a button (windows) or run a script (nix) and yor app appears on the web. The datastore is quite complicated though! If you rig up your own host though, you have a lot more freedom with what software you get to use. A very simple way is to plug mod_wsgi into apache (a common web server) and then write your app as a wsgi script; this usually just entails adding a couple of necessary methods to your script. In my case, I have a buddy with a web host set up so I can get things up on there very easily and for free. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I run a python program from an internet address?
On May 8, 9:20 am, Albert albertsu...@gmail.com wrote: I have a small text based python program that I want to make available to people who might be behind a firewall or can't install python on their office computers, but can access the internet. It is just an algorithm that makes a handful of straightforward calculations on some input that the user provides and spits out some text as output that they might want to print out on a printer. I can program python on my local machine, but don't know how to make the code accessible from a browser. You could do this quite easily with CherryPy: import cherrypy class WebApp(object): def calc(self, a, b): c = int(a) + int(b) return str(c) calc.exposed = True cherrypy.quickstart(WebApp()) This can be called via '/calc/1/2' or 'calc?a=1b=2'. You can add a method to provide a form and another to produce a pretty output and it's good to go. http://www.cherrypy.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
How do I run a python program from an internet address?
I have a small text based python program that I want to make available to people who might be behind a firewall or can't install python on their office computers, but can access the internet. It is just an algorithm that makes a handful of straightforward calculations on some input that the user provides and spits out some text as output that they might want to print out on a printer. I can program python on my local machine, but don't know how to make the code accessible from a browser. What would be the best way to figure out how to do this? I looked at Google app engine tutorial, but can't figure out how that will help we get the code into the cloud so I can access it from any browser. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I run a python program from an internet address?
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Albert albertsu...@gmail.com wrote: I have a small text based python program that I want to make available to people who might be behind a firewall or can't install python on their office computers, but can access the internet. It is just an algorithm that makes a handful of straightforward calculations on some input that the user provides and spits out some text as output that they might want to print out on a printer. I can program python on my local machine, but don't know how to make the code accessible from a browser. Probably the easiest way is to make your program into a web server itself: http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/http.server.html Put it on a high port (eg 8000) and then direct people to http://your.machine.ip.address:8000/ to access it. There are other ways, too, such as CGI scripting, but the http.server module is pretty convenient. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How do I run a python program from an internet address?
On Mon, 07 May 2012 16:20:35 -0700, Albert wrote: I have a small text based python program that I want to make available to people who might be behind a firewall or can't install python on their office computers, but can access the internet. It is just an algorithm that makes a handful of straightforward calculations on some input that the user provides and spits out some text as output that they might want to print out on a printer. I can program python on my local machine, but don't know how to make the code accessible from a browser. What would be the best way to figure out how to do this? Try googling python web app how to. For example, the very first link found here: https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=python%20web%20app%20how%20to is an introduction to making Python applications available to run over the Internet. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
