Re: Using Python with a website

[Alister via Python-list]

On Wed, 04 Jul 2018 23:25:14 +, Adrian Taylor wrote:

> G'day All,
> 
> I have just discovered Python and thanks to a script by Ethan I can read
> a foxpro database and change the required values.
> However my next big step is to be able to use this python feature within
> a website.
> 
> Basically I want to be able to click on a button and call the script.
> This would in turn display some information on the webpage but do what
> it needs to do on the server.
> I have setup Apache and it all works on the server, my stumbling block
> is calling it from a website.
> 
> I am using Server 2012 R2 Python 3.7 Apache 2.4 I can run the Python
> scripts from the command line prompt.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Regards,
> Adrian Taylor InfoHub - ICT - Helpdesk
> 
> 
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start by looking up uwsgi




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Re: Using Python with a website

[Ben Finney]

Adrian Taylor  writes:

> I have just discovered Python […]

Welcome. The Python community has a starter page for beginners at
https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide>.

> However my next big step is to be able to use this python feature
> within a website.

Good. Be aware, though, that running a program on the public internet is
a very complicated thing. Partly this is because your program needs to
be on a web site, which itself needs to play nicely with the rest of the
internet.

And, an even more important part, is that the internet is a very wild
place with a continual noise of malicious parties trying to compromise
any site. So you need to do a lot of things just to defend against that.

All of which is to say: There is a huge increase in complexity from “my
simple program which accepts input and produces output”, to a website
that will do the same thing.

See the community guides on web frameworks, which let you wrap your
feature in a whole lot of code that will take care of the “be a website”
job https://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks/>.

For general purpose use, I recommend Django which has excellent help
https://www.djangoproject.com/>.

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Using Python with a website

[Adrian Taylor]

G'day All,

I have just discovered Python and thanks to a script by Ethan I can read a 
foxpro database and change the required values.
However my next big step is to be able to use this python feature within a 
website.

Basically I want to be able to click on a button and call the script.
This would in turn display some information on the webpage but do what it needs 
to do on the server.
I have setup Apache and it all works on the server, my stumbling block is 
calling it from a website.

I am using Server 2012 R2
Python 3.7
Apache 2.4
I can run the Python scripts from the command line prompt.

Can anyone help?

Regards,
Adrian Taylor
InfoHub - ICT - Helpdesk



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E : atay...@faithlc.qld.edu.au
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