What's the very simplest way to run some Python from a button on a web page?

[Ian Kelly]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 7:58 AM, <tinnews at isbd.co.uk> wrote:

> I want to run a server side python script when a button on a web page
> is clicked.  This is on a LAMP server - apache2 on xubuntu 11.10.
>
> I know I *could* run it as a CGI script but I don't want to change the
> web page at all when the button is clicked (I'll see the effect
> elsewhere on the screen anyway) so normal CGI isn't ideal.
>
> It's easy to show a button:-
>
>    <INPUT TYPE=submit NAME="Button" ONCLICK=something>;
>
> Can I get away with something clever for 'something' that will somehow
> hook through to a server side script?
>

Yes, use AJAX to make an asynchronous request.  There are several AJAX
toolkits out there that will make this simple.
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