Any Python in your app, whether in a controller or view, will be executed on the server, as the browser cannot execute Python. If you want things to happen dynamically on the page in the browser without loading a new page, then you can use Javascript or make Ajax calls to get new HTML content from the server.
Anthony On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 5:40:39 PM UTC-4, Phillip wrote: > > I am having trouble finding anything definitive here. Please help if you > have any input, even if short. > > > My goal is to prevent the server from doing the python processing. > > > Is this incorrect?: > > If running the python in the controller function (instead of embedding as > JS), the server will do the processing > > > Since python functions need to be used in the view for client processing, > is there an elegant way to call the python methods in the page? Could you > give me an example of a good way to do this with a large script? i.e. > returning methods or scripts from the controller, using AJax, etc. > > Am I on the right track? > > > Thanks, > > > Phillip K > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
