Using browser as interface to python app

[Sandy Norton]

"Bill Bell" <bill-bell at bill-bell.hamilton.on.ca> wrote: 
> I can't claim to understand what you're doing ...

I'm simply trying to use the browser as an interface to a small python
program that retrieves and parses webpages and then publishes the
results in an html page. I would like for example for the user to be
able to configure the app via the browser (by selecting checkboxes and
whatnot) without having to use a command-line menu or a full blown GUI
such as wxPython or Tkinter.

"Sandy Norton" wrote:
> > I thought about using CGIHTTPServer in the Standard Lib but its use of
> > forking doesn't make sense for Windows. OTOH, I'm also sure that
> > there's a COM way to do this somehow, but I'd really like to try to
> > make the end app as portable as possible. Another consideration is
> > distribution footprint...(we wouldn't want the user to have to
> > download and set up apache :-)

"Bill Bell" wrote: 
> How about Zope? Download is 5 Mbytes, extremely easy to install, 
> includes web server.
> 
> I've installed it for use by one of my smallest clients in maintaining 
> their documentation. For what they need, it's very easy to maintain.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm afraid Zope is also perceived to be a
bit of an overkill solution as the py2exe distribution of the GUI-less
(w/ command-line driven) app is 1 meg: adding Zope and 5 more megs to
the distro doesn't seem right.

Sandy