[Tutor] Why not to use include?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/8 Andreas Kostyrka <andreas at kostyrka.org>:
>> Very little of the pages are PHP, most is HTML. I understand that
>> Python can be used as a web scripting language, so I assume that
>> Python can be run in Apache from a page with an .html extension. Is
>> this not the case, with an .httaccess directive?
>
> Generally no.

Oh.

> Furthermore, Python is pretty bad language to embed in HTML, as whitespace is
> significant in Python.

That is one of the things that drew me to Python, actually. I like the
indentation structure and in any case I structure my PHP code with
indentation as well as {}.

>> Could I do something similar with a function? Something like
>> printHeader() and I would define that function in a class?
>
> Consult http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebProgramming first, please ;)

Thank you!

Dotan Cohen

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