Remote server: running a Python script and making *.csv filespublicly available

[Jason Hsu]

I have a Python 2.7 script that produces *.csv files. I'd like to run this Python script on a remote server and make the *.csv files publicly available to read.

Can this be done on Heroku? I've gone through the tutorial, but it seems to be geared towards people who want to create a whole web site.

If Heroku isn't the solution for me, what are the alternatives? I tried Google App Engine, but it requires Python 2.5 and won't work with 2.7.

 

[Miki Tebeka]

make the *.csv files publicly available to read.

Can this be done on Heroku? I've gone through the tutorial, but it seems to be geared towards people who want to create a whole web site.

See one option - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...le-static-files-with-python-webapp2-in-heroku

If Heroku isn't the solution for me, what are the alternatives? I tried Google App Engine, but it requires Python 2.5 and won't work with 2.7.

AppEngine does support Python 2.7, see https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime

 

[Michael Torrie]

I have a Python 2.7 script that produces *.csv files. I'd like to
run this Python script on a remote server and make the *.csv files
publicly available to read.

Can this be done on Heroku? I've gone through the tutorial, but it
seems to be geared towards people who want to create a whole web
site.

If Heroku isn't the solution for me, what are the alternatives? I
tried Google App Engine, but it requires Python 2.5 and won't work
with 2.7.

Can you just write the files in a directory and then have apache
configured to serve this directory up over http? That way Python needn't
worry about the details of http serving. Other mini web servers would
work too like lighttpd or uhttpd.

Alternatively you could use Python-Twisted to implement a simple web
server that serves up the CSV.

Using a full framework is overkill, in my opinion. I'm not sure what
Heroku (first I've heard of it) is, but I don't think you need that.