how to initiate an interactive python script from an html cgi?

[arthur sherman]

i have a python script which currently runs in a shell cli.

i'd like to initiate this script from a web page.

the closest i got was to have the output displayed on the webpage (w/o linefeeds),

but it crashed when requesting input via raw_input().

i simply did 'exec python-script-name' from the cgi.

ok, i now understand why it crashed and why the output is displayed primitively

it's  now my understanding that django can help.

where's the best place to start?

tnx

ams

[Derek]

You could look at using a tool like Skulpt which allows you to run scripts with interaction in a browser window:

http://www.skulpt.org/

E.g. from their example:

Python 2.6(ish) (skulpt, Wed Mar 25 2015 17:52:34)

[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/37.0.2062.120 Chrome/37.0.2062.120 Safari/537.36] on Linux i686

f = raw_input()

f

'rest'

[Tom Evans]

The best solution is to rewrite it so that it can be used non-interactively.

Much, much much less reliable is to use an "expect" like library, eg pexpect.

Cheers

Tom