[Tutor] making a python program part of xhtml

[Emily Fortuna]

Hola everyone,
I'm working on creating a webpage in which a user can submit data into 
fields to be held in a database (there are other details, but this is 
the gist of the idea), and I need to use python.  I am unfamiliar with 
manipulating data and web apps as a whole (and new to python), so I have 
been encountering much unfamiliar terrain.  I _think_ I want to somehow 
embed the python into the page, but I'm really not sure how to do it.  
After googling I found some programs that generate xhtml from python, 
but I don't think that is what I want, or is it?  Your help is appreciated!
Emily