improving performance of python webserver running python scripts in cgi-bin

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Dale a écrit :
> I am using a simple python webserver (see code below) to serve up
> python scripts located in my cgi-bin directory.
> 
> import BaseHTTPServer
> import CGIHTTPServer
> class Handler(CGIHTTPServer.CGIHTTPRequestHandler):
>     cgi_directories = ['/cgi-bin']
> httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('',8000), Handler)
> httpd.serve_forever()
> 
> 
> This works fine, but now I would like to combine the python scripts
> into the server program to eliminate starting the python interpreter
> on each script call.  I am new to python, and was wondering if there
> is a better techique that will be faster.
 >
> Also, can someone reccommend an alternative approach to
> httpd.serve_forever().  I would like to perform other python functions
> (read a serial port, write to an Ethernet port, write to a file, etc.)
> inside the web server program above.  Is there an example of how to
> modify the code for an event loop style of operation where the program
> mostly performs my python I/O functions until an HTTP request comes
> in, and then it breaks out of the I/O operations to handle the HTTP
> request.
> 
May I suggest that you take a look at more sophisticated solutions, like 
either wsgi, CherryPy or Twisted ?