a little more help with python server-side scripting

[Steve Holden]

John Salerno wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
> 
>>I contacted my domain host about how Python is implemented on their 
>>server, and got this response:
> 
> 
> Uh, okay, I asked a related question to them and now I got this:
> 
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> Hello John,
> 
> There are some corrections based on last reply.
> 
> The python installation on our windows hosting is not configured as 
> mod_python. Howevet, it is directly map with a website extensions 
> mapping in IIS. Save your python script as .py file on the wwwroot and 
> you may call the scripts using http://www.yourdomain.com/yourfile.py
> 
> If you have any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Mackenzie S.
> Support Executive
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> 
> Does that really change anything?
> 
Well, it means that PSP is out, unfortunately.

> What I had asked was if I could just embed Python code within my HTML 
> files, like you do with PHP, but they didn't address that yet.

OK, what you need to ask them is whether they have installed Python as 
an Active Scripting language. If they have then you can use it pretty 
much like VBscript.

regards
  Steve
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