[Tutor] How to create web interface?

[P McCombs]

Thank you all for your responses. This is exactly the information I
was looking for.

Paul McCombs

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 20/05/14 21:00, P McCombs wrote:
>>
>> On May 14, Danny Yoo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Another option might be to turn your program into a web site, so that
>>>> the interface is the web browser, which everyone is getting used to
>>>> these days.  But this, too, is also... involved.  :P
>>
>>
>> I have a little volunteer scheduling application I've written as a
>> module, with about a dozen functions, that reads and writes to a
>> Sqlite database. I'd like to run a web server on my machine just for
>> my local use.
>>
>> I don't understand how precisely the web page would communicate with
>> the python program.
>
>
> If you want to understand the basics then the cgi module in the standard lib
> is a good starting point. It makes life a bit
> easier than nothing but exposes the underlying technology.
>
> But if you want something to keep you sane and make web
> programming easy then Pyhon has more web frameworks than
> you can shake a stick at. From very simple (Flask, CherryPy)
> to very complex (Django, Zope).
>
> There is a good page on the python.org web site that summarises
> the technology and many of the most popular frameworks but
> ultimately you just pick one and work through its tutorial.
>
> Start here for theory:
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/howto/webservers.html
>
> and go here for the list:
>
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks
>
>
> HTH
> --
> Alan G
> Author of the Learn to Program web site
> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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>
>
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