[Tutor] Really basic web templating

[Ian Witham]

On 10/1/07, wormwood_3 <wormwood_3 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to think of a way to make this happen, but it may not be at
> all possible:-) I would like to use Python to generate pages on demand for
> my website. By this I mean, when someone hits www.mysite.com/pagex.html, I
> want to generate the page pagex.html via a Python script.
>
> I have a script setup that can generate a page from a template file and a
> file with the body and title of the page in particular I want to generate.
> Now from this, I need to somehow be able to respond to requests, and then
> generate the page based on the page requested. I want to do this because my
> site is on a shared hosting account, so I cannot install a web framework
> like Django, and the site's pages will be rather simple. At the same time, I
> would like to use templating, so I do not have repeated identical code
> between the pages.
>
> Any ideas on this?


It sounds like you want to use CGI. I think virtually all web servers
support it and there are a ton of CGI tutorials on the web

Ian.
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