Running a Python script on a web server

[Nitin Pawar]

There are few options available  with mod_python + apache configuration but
it comes with limitation as the scripts will be running on servers and you
will need to parse the requests and inputs as a web request to the script



On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Abhijeet Mahagaonkar
> <abhijeet.manohar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So i have requested a server space so I need some inputs on how i will be
> > able to "host" these scripts on a webserver and have them run on browsers
> > rather than on individual systems.
>
> Python doesn't normally run in a web browser. There's two easy options:
>
> 1) Use very simple web hosting that lets people download scripts and
> run them. Anything can do this, but all you gain is that they don't
> have to keep a collection of scripts / EXEs on their hard drives.
>
> 2) Run the Python scripts on the web server. I don't know whether this
> is even possible in your situation; it would turn them into quite
> different tools.
>
> I have no experience with it, but Jython can make applets. Again,
> though, these would be quite different tools from simple Python
> scripts. Web browsers aren't generally happy for in-browser scripts
> to, for instance, read and write files on the user's hard drive.
>
> I think you're ultimately going to need to keep on distributing those
> scripts. But if you get your users to install a Python interpreter,
> they need only install it once and then you can distribute all your
> scripts in .py format rather than py2exeing them all.
>
> Chris Angelico
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