[Tutor] HTML Generating

Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:02:25 -0400

OK, now I feel just a little bit silly... thanks a lot for the conk on the 
head... ;-)

Mark

On 3 Jul 2001, at 14:15, Sheila King wrote:

> In order to have it "execute in a browser", you would need to have a web
> server, and have your script in the cgi-bin of the website and call the
> script by putting a URL that points to the script into the Location in
> your web browser.
> 
> Are you trying to learn CGI programming? (This is how you get programs
> to run on a web page.) Or are you just trying to get your feet wet with
> programming. CGI programming isn't hard, but it is something additional
> to learning just the "programming" part.
> 
> If you want to get it to run on your WIN95 machine, you would need to
> install a web server on your home machine, get it running, and then have
> a link to the script on your machine.
> 
> This is probably not very clear, but I'm sure we can provide more
> information if you are interested. Let us know.
> 
> --
> Sheila King
> http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
> http://www.k12groups.org/
> 
> 
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:49:25 -0600, "Tobin, Mark"
> <Mark.Tobin@attcanada.com>  wrote about [Tutor] HTML Generating:
> 
> :OK... how come when I make a python script such as the one Sheila King
> :posted (below) and execute it through my local IE5.5, it executes in a
> :python window (DOS window) as opposed to in the browser?  I'm using PY2.1 on
> :a WIN95 machine with IE5.5.  I don't really know how to express this any
> :better (I'm just beginning to pick up some of this new language called
> :"programerese"), but if this isn't clear I'll try again...
> :
> :Thanks in advance,
> :
> :Mark
> :
> :#!/usr/bin/env python
> :
> :import os
> :
> :print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
> :
> :print "<html>\n"
> :
> :print "<Head>"
> :print "<Title>Obligatory Python Test Script</Title>"
> :print "</Head>\n"
> :
> :print "<Body>\n"
> :print "<H3>Hello</H3>"
> :print "<b>This is the obligatory<br> Python 'Hello\' testscript<br></b>"
> :print "<i>Ta-da</i><br><br>"
> :
> :print "NEW STUFF: testing environment variables<br>"
> :print os.environ["REMOTE_ADDR"],"<br><br>"
> :print "<p>And now, all the environment variables:<br>"
> :print "<b>",
> :for el in os.environ.keys():
> :	print el, " = ", os.environ[el], "<br>"
> :print "</b>"
> :print "THE END"
> :
> :print "</body>\n</html>"
> :
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