Newbie question, python code <-> web formulare

[Jim Abrams]

Ben Thursfield <Thursfield at west.de> wrote in 
news:3CD80F0E.1B4AC97E at west.de:

> Hi!
> 
> I've been programming a bit in python for a few days now, und I'm now at
> the point where I want to embed my Python code into my webpage somehow.
> For example I'm connecting to my mailserver using the socket lib and I
> want to be able to transfer data between the python program and a web
> formulare (e.g. login+pass). I don't know how to manage that though. I
> manage it when i do it locally but i don't know how to get my webhost to
> run the python programm so i can communicate with it.
> Is this possible at all? Can I use Python in a PHP manner?
> 
> Sorry for my bad english..
> 
> Greets Ben
> 

If you're stuck on Win32 you can drop Python into ASP pages.
http://www.python.org/topics/web/windows.html