Executing a python script from an HTML link?

[John Roth]

"Andrew Chalk" <achalk at XXXmagnacartasoftware.com> wrote in message
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> Is this possible? In my CGI app. I display a web page with a link
(anchor).
> When the link is clicked I want to exectute a python script rather than go
> to an HTML page.

Do you want to run the script on the server or the client? If you
want to run it on the client, you can use Python instead of Javascript
(or in addition to Javascript) in the web page. Look at the <script>
tag for the language (I think that's the one - I haven't looked it up
recently) attribute. Otherwise, just invoke Python the same way you would
invoke any other executable, and use the script name as the
first parameter.

John Roth

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