Newbie and Page Re-Loading

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

mosscliffe a écrit :
> I am very new to this python world, but I do like the look of the
> language / syntax, though I have had some problems with indenting
> using a text editor.

There's no shortage of smart code editor having a decent support for 
Python.

> 
> I have managed to get my ISP to execute .py files on their server.

Great.

> I have created a .py file and it does in fact do the various little
> tasks I have asked it to do.
> 
> Now i need to get a bit more serious.
> 
> I wish to have a web page with a search form at the top and on
> processing the form re-load my current page, but with the various
> search results.
> 
> Do I just add my script name to the Action part of the Form

your script's url would actually be better.

> and how
> can I pass variables, other than form variables to each execution of
> the script.  If I have to use hidden form variables, how would I alter
> them for each page.

Since you're talking about redisplaying the page with results added, I 
assume this page is dynamically created by another python script. If so, 
you can put the form's generation in a function that will take 
page-specific params and put them in the appropriate hidden fields. Then 
just call that function from the script generating your web page.

> I suppose I am looking for some sort of session management, 

Depends... But if it's just to know which page called the script, you 
don't need sessions here.

> but I have
> not been able to track one down as yet.  

I'm suppose your doing CGI scripts. I've seen some basic session 
management for CGI somewhere, but that's mostly old stuff.

> I am running on an ISP, with
> no knowledge of python, so asking about getting packages loaded will
> not be an option.

You can install packages in your own space - you'll just have to make 
sure that there in your python path.

> I have 'Python in a Nutshell', but it is a bit sparse on everyday web
> page examples.

"everyday web pages examples" in Python usually imply a more 
sophisticated framework and a long running process (think Zope, Django, 
CherryPy, Pylons, mod_python, wsgi, fcgi etc...)