One big issues is wether this is synchronous or asynchronous. If the script 
takes time you need to write the output to a file and read it incrementally 
when polled by the web app. it may be convent to wrap your script in a 
service and have the web app call the service.

On Thursday, 1 December 2016 00:08:02 UTC-6, Alex M wrote:
>
> When wanting to make a web gui for a python script, is it then better to 
> use a python web framework?
>
> I other words is there a better interaction between web2py and python 
> scripts running on the server, than when using something like RoR to 
> interact with python scripts. Or does it not matter since you would 
> probably be communicating via REST anyway?
>
> The reason I am asking is because I want to make a web gui for my videopy 
> script.
> The user should be able to select some videos, then run the script and see 
> the result.
>
> I am through the first 3 chapters of the web2py book, and I am really 
> impressed, but I just got curious.
>

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