using python in www site

Stefan Franke spamfranke at bigfoot.de
Mon May 10 10:14:13 EDT 1999


On Sun, 09 May 1999 09:39:09 -0400, "Thomas A. Bryan" <tbryan at arlut.utexas.edu>
wrote:

[...]
>Situation: 
>Your ISP permits Perl cgi scripts.
>You'd like to use Python, but they don't intend to install Python.
>You decide to use mxCGIPython, but you don't know enough information 
> about the ISP's platform.  
>
>Solution: 
>Change the first line of the script at the bottom of the page
> to point to your ISP's Perl.
>Upload the script to your cgi-bin directory.  
> (Make script executable if necessary)
>Point your browser to the script.
[...]

Cool thing.. Just half the way from having a generic Perl script which
determines, downloads and installs the right mxCGIPython automatically.

Should be in Perl's standard distribution, I reckon ;-)
Stefan





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