Dynamic HTML from Python Script

Tue Jun 10 22:58:55 EDT 2008

Aidan wrote:
> asdf wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:20:48 +1000, Aidan wrote:
>>
>>> asdf wrote:
>>>>> Well, there's a few ways you could approach it.
>>>>>
>>>>> You could create a cgi program from your script - this is probably the
>>>>> solution you're looking for.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Output from the script does come up very often. There is a new output
>>>> every 10 secs and it's possible that the script might be run
>>>> indefinitely. Basically I want all that output displayed in a web
>>>> browser
>>> Well, in that case you could simply append the new output to a static
>>> file every 10 seconds, or whenever there is new output.  That way, you
>>> just need to refresh the static file in your browser to see updates...
>>> Given what I understand of your situation, that's how I'd do it.
>>>
>> The problem with this is that browser would have to be refreshed manually
>> every 10 seconds. Unless there is a way to set this in the script itself.
> 
> You should be able to do that with just:
> 
> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10"/>
> 
> in the <head> section of your page (you can adjust the value of content 
> from 5 to however many seconds you want between refreshes).

To be clear, you can set the content attribute value to any arbitrary 
integer value.

> 
> You could also look at adding some AJAX-yness to your page, and have it 
> query your script for new output every 10 seconds, and then add that 
> content to the existing page... it sounds like this behavior is what 
> you're looking for, but it's slightly harder to pull off than the method 
> mentioned above.
> 
>>
>>> A constantly running CGI app is probably not the best idea, given
>>> timeouts and other such constraints you might run into.
>>>
>>>
>>>>> You could have the script run periodically and create a static html
>>>>> file in the webroot... this would be acceptable, maybe preferable, if
>>>>> the output from your script doesn't change frequently.
>>>>>
>>