Python, Forms, Databases

John Salerno johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com
Wed Feb 15 14:16:35 EST 2006


Tempo wrote:
> I have been looking around for a few days for ways to use Python with
> HTML forms. What I am interested in doing is placing the data that is
> submited through an HTML form and collected by Python into a MySQL
> database. I initially thought that I was going to be able to do this
> with ASP, but I found out that my web hosting provider doesn't have ASP
> support installed into their servers. Also, I couldn't find any dirt
> cheap hosting providers that did support Pyton and ASP together. The
> next solution I stumbled upon was to use Zope. However, I wasn't sure
> if I should spend more of my time looking into this or not, and I found
> a possible way around this, which is by using the CGI module. As you
> can see, I am somewhat new to Python web programming and I have
> confused myself. Can anybody name a few modules that I should look into
> and these modules are the ones that will allow me to accomplish what I
> am interested in doing? Thanks for your help.
> 

The host I use was cheap when I signed up (around $4/month) for a 
personal site. You might try them: STP Web Hosting. They have ASP 
support, and I recently asked them about Python and they turned that on 
for me also.



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