Is Python Sticky?

[Gerhard Häring]

ball at righty.eiu-newman.org wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Hello!
> 
> For a while "Learn Python" has been on my list of things to do.  Right
> now I have an application that could use some glue between a web based
> interface (in its simplest form a single page with a couple of buttons
> on it), and a shell script (I'm running NetBSD).  Would Python be
> suitable for this kind of thing?

Python is an excellent choice both for writing web applications and
driving web-based interfaces.

> Are there other pieces of the puzzle that I'll need?

All you'll need should be in the standard Python library.

> Any pointers would be most welcome.

I'd head to the "Newbie" page at www.python.org and work thru one of
the tutorials. From the standard Python library, you'll need the cgi
moduel for writing CGI scripts, and urllib or urllib2 for controlling
a CGI script from your Python script.

Gerhard
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