Question

I’m trying to create site using Django framework. I looked on tutorial on Django project site but contains much information which I don’t need. I have python scripts which provides output and I need to have this output on the web. My question is how simply manage Django to have link which start the script and provides its output on the web or perhaps you provide the link where I can read about this?

Thank you.

Answer 1

“I have python scripts which provides
output and I need to have this output
on the web.”

That is not what Django is for. What you want to do can be achieved with something as simple as this:

from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer

class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
        self.end_headers()

        self.wfile.write("magic content goes here")

if __name__=="__main__":
    try:
        server = HTTPServer(("", 8080), Handler)
        server.serve_forever()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        server.socket.close()

Observe the self.wfile.write line. Whatever you write there ends up in the browser. If it matters, you can use self.path in the Handler to check which file was requested.

Tested with Python 2.6.4, accessed the server with Chrome browser.