passing Python data to a javascript function

Fri Aug 9 04:36:09 EDT 2013

On Thursday, October 27, 2011 9:25:28 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Bill Allen <wallenpb at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Chris,
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> > Wow, that seems so simple now that I see it.  I was dancing around that all
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> > day, but just not landing on it.   Thanks so very much for the assist.
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> >This code is giving an error 500 when run. Although the python code is independently running OK

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> > --Bill
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> > Final code that works perfectly, passes the value from the Python script to
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> > the javascript correctly:
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> > <body onload="showPID("""+pid_data+""")">
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> Congratulations! You've just written code that writes code. It takes a
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> bit to get your head around it (especially when you start worrying
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> about literal strings that might contain quotes, for instance), but
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> it's really cool and seriously powerful stuff. Your server-side Python
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> code can generate client-side Javascript code any way it likes...
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> unlimited possibilities.
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> ChrisA