embedding python in HTML

[bruno at modulix]

John Salerno wrote:
> Rene Pijlman wrote:
> 
>> John Salerno:
>> [Python alternative for PHP]
>>
>>> So to do this with Python, do I simply integrate it into the HTML as
>>> above, with no extra steps? 
>>
>>
>> You'd need something like the PHP engine, that understands Python rather
>> than PHP.
> 
> 
> My web server can run Python, fortunately. Now that they've turned it on
> for me, I wanted to try it out, but I didn't know how to go about
> writing a bit of code to stick into an HTML file.

You've got to understand that Python is *not* a 'ServerPage' language
(-> php, asp, jsp etc) in itself. Your server can now run python, fine,
but *how* ? CGI ? FastCGI ? mod_python ? other ? (hint: it's probably
just plain old CGI...)


-- 
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"