local moduile acess from cgi-bin

noro amit.man at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 08:30:40 EDT 2006


thanks bruno

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> noro wrote:
> > hello all.
> >
> > I do some coding in python but this is my first attampt to write
> > somthing for hte web.
> >
> > I need to write a cgi-bin script for a web-server, and i've got the
> > access for it from our "SYSTEM". the problem is that this script uses
> > some modules (pg, pyLab) that i've installed localy in my home dir.
> > Python knows how to find them due to an enviorment variable inthe shell
> > (please corrent me if i'm wrong).
> >
> > now, i am by no means big expert about web servers, but if i got it
> > right, the web server run under some user ("www-data" or such).
> > so howi can i make this user (and the web) be able to run my python
> > code without having to install the modules as shared. (which i dont
> > think they will allow me).
>
> import sys
> sys.path.append('/home/amir/<wherever-your-modules-are>')
>
> should do the trick.
>
> HTH
> --
> bruno desthuilliers
> python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
> p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"




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