ASP web-type stuff

Tue Apr 18 11:44:03 EDT 2000

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Did you make any progress with this project? I'm a total python newbie, 
I started a thread called "Using python on the web" yesterday after 
realizing that learning python itself isn't enough - that CGI or 
something is required in order to use python in a web app. I am more 
familiar with the CF/ASP/PHP way of doing things, and know nothing at 
all of CGI. I still have no idea how I'd acutally use python to power an 
interactive website, any more than I would if I was using BASIC for a 
language. So your idea sounds like something I can relate to, and 
perhaps other neophytes could too. I wonder what would be lost, if 
anything, with this approach. I'm not sure enough of python to even 
begin to evaluate this.

And if you have any links up your sleeve that talk about using python to 
run interactive site on the web, I'd love to see them. Seems like a very 
strange blank spot on the map.

In article <c2LG4.3228$9o.6039280 at news.magma.ca>, 
dgreen at kryten.kitenet.net says...
> Ah. I suppose I should have made myself more clear. What I meant was that
> I was interested in writing a CGI/FastCGI type script so that the same
> code could be used under Apache/Netscape Enterprise/insert your favorite
> unix web server here. I already have a prototype working under Apache with
> a CGI redirect. I'd like to write interfaces to httpdapy and PyApache as
> well.
> 
> In article <8cfea6$71$1 at gxsn.com>, Richard Chamberlain wrote:
> >Hi Dan,
> >
> >ASP is not language dependent, most of the stuff you'll see is written in
> >VBScript or JScript but you can actually configure it to use other
> >languages.
> >
> >See http://starship.python.net/crew/pirx/asp/py_asp.html to show you how to
> >use Python with ASP.
> >
> >Richard
> >
> >"Dan Green" <dgreen at kryten.kitenet.net> wrote in message
> >news:RZyG4.3061$9o.5812531 at news.magma.ca...
> >> Ahoy, folks.
> >> I was looking over things like Embperl and Apache::ASP and liked the
> >> idea. I would like the idea more if I could do with python. So I had a
> >> couple of questions:
> >>
> >> Is there such a thing?
> >> Is there interest in such a thing?
> >> Does anbody want to hear about my 75 lines of code hack that basically
> >does
> >> the trick, but needs a lot of work?
> >>
> >> If nobody cares at all, I'll just shut up and go home. :)
> >>
> >> For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, it's basically
> >an
> >> alternative to CGI that allows you to embed the code right into the HTML.
> >>
> >> something like this:
> >>
> >> <HTML>
> >> <BODY>
> >> <%  for i in range(5): %>
> >> Loop item <%= i %><BR>
> >> </BODY>
> >> </HTML>
> >>
> >> would look like this when called from a browser:
> >>
> >> <HTML>