Embed Python in HTML?

[Sean Hammond]

Forgive my ignorance, but I sometimes write custom dynamic web-pages
using PHP, by simply embedding PHP in HTML with <?php ?> tags, and
renaming for example index.html to index.php and making it executable. I
only use this for very minor things like calling a script, and don't
really want to learn any more PHP as it looks awful. So I was wondering,
is it possible to throw together dynamic web pages like this using
Python or other languages? If so, can anyone point me to any relevant
tutorials, references or other info?

Thanks

 

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

Forgive my ignorance, but I sometimes write custom dynamic web-pages
using PHP, by simply embedding PHP in HTML with <?php ?> tags, and
renaming for example index.html to index.php and making it executable. I
only use this for very minor things like calling a script, and don't
really want to learn any more PHP as it looks awful. So I was wondering,
is it possible to throw together dynamic web pages like this using
Python or other languages? If so, can anyone point me to any relevant
tutorials, references or other info?

Dear Sean,

You have _lots_ of choices. Many web frameworks provide exactly what
you want, and then some. And I guess what could make your choice
harder is deciding how much of that "some" you want.

I'd start going over:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/Templating

(or
http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebProgramming
for broader stuff).


Best,

R.

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

Forgive my ignorance, but I sometimes write custom dynamic web-pages
using PHP, by simply embedding PHP in HTML with <?php ?> tags, and
renaming for example index.html to index.php and making it executable. I
only use this for very minor things like calling a script, and don't
really want to learn any more PHP as it looks awful. So I was wondering,
is it possible to throw together dynamic web pages like this using
Python or other languages?

sure, and an endless number of programmers have provided their own
favourite way to do this:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/Templating
http://www.google.com/search?q=python+server+pages
http://www.google.com/search?q=python+template+languages

and so on. if you want to roll your own, see:

http://jtauber.com/2006/05/templates.html
http://blog.ianbicking.org/templating-via-dict-wrappers.html

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