Currently I'm learning to work with the Django framework. I'm trying to make a dashboard that can collect some output of scripts I want to make (in Python). I can't really find a conclusive answer to how to pipe the output of a python script through Django in my app. For instance, I want a script that runs a couple of ARP calls and pings in a network and have the output in a dashboard. Of course python is probably not the only language I'm going to use for scripting, maybe I will use some Bash or Golang also.
I hope someone is able to help my in the right direction.
Thank you in advance!
I have done this for a coding portal that I made.
What I did is, opened a thread that executed code and put the output in a file that was linked to a model filefield
Then I simply collected the contents of the file in the template (dashboard in your case)
If interested,
models.py (Check for Submission and Result model)
Code processing file (This is the file that actually runs the code and collects)
I was in a hurry when I made this. The way I have processed code is highly inefficient and should not be used. But you will get the idea
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I want to be able to run my own python script (which will basically just print out the response with a bit of formatting) whenever a new response is submitted to my google form. I looked at google's python API for forms, but it doesn't seem to have a way to set up a trigger so that the script executes when a new response is submitted. Best it can do is pull a response ID after the fact and give me the details of the response. Is there a way to do this? From what I've seen google's apps script can't do what I need it to (print stuff onto paper), so I would prefer to make a trigger for my own python script.
Any help appreciated. If the answer to this question is painfully obvious, please guide me in a good general direction because I'm totally lost.
Thanks!
You have to rethink your "solution" as the Google Forms API doesn't support triggers but Google Apps Script script does, i.e., you might make your Python program to poll the form or the linked spreadsheet.
From https://developers.google.com/forms
Automate Google Forms with simple code
Anyone can use Apps Script to automate and enhance Google Docs in a web-based, low-code environment.
Automate tasks based on Google Form submissions.
I have created a really cool Python program that I want all of my friends to try out. I really want to put the running code onto a website so people can try it all around the world. Is it possible to run Python code on a HTML page? If so, how?
In answer to your question: Yes, this is possible.
If you merely want to share your code with your friends, and allow them to try it out (even without them having Python installed), in browser, then there are a number of tools that you can use.
For example, with https://trinket.io/ , you can embed a snippet of python code in an HTML webpage or share it via a link.
Update:
Another alternative online python site is http://repl.it/. Repl.it has compiled the CPython interpreter into Javascript, using an LLVM -> Javascript compiler. It is opensource, so you could even self-host if you wanted. Caveat: Some of the libraries still have bugs in them.
The simple pedestrian solution is to create a WSGI wrapper. You can configure your web server to accept input through a form (typically) and feed that to your Python program as input, then display the program's output as the response to the form submission. Thus your program runs on the server -- which needs to have the required services and resources -- but the user interaction happens simply using the client's web browser.
There are more-complex interaction models but this is how the entire web 1.0 was set up and is quick and easy to get going. (The spec back then was the similar platform-independent CGI API.)
I want to be able to give out a form, with essentially 4 inputs. Each time it is submitted, I would it to trigger a python script.
I'm not totally sure where to start here. I could have the python code live on a server somewhere and have the google apps script trigger it, but ideally I could do this without having to host my code somewhere else. I also would like to avoid paying for anything...
Any and all advice would be appreciated. Please assume I have only a small amount of knowledge about this kind of stuff.
Check out this tutorial on the AppEngine documentation.
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstartedpython27/introduction
It will help you set up using Python and WebApp2 (for your forms!) and storing this data to datastore if you wish. You could just expand and modify the guestbook tutorial they make you do to have your application/script do exactly what you need it to. It's an excellent tutorial to get started even if you don't have much knowledge about python or appengine.
Hello :) My task is to write a web framework for a Python program with some massive calculations, which are desired to be executed at proper server and the result should be sent to the browser after it's calculated. My question is - is Django the right framework for that purpose? I tried to find out where Django executes scripts, but I haven't found any satisfying answer, so I hope that I would find one here.
Thank you for any attention.
django is a server side application
I know that with the SimpleHTTPServer I can make my directories accessible by web-browsers via Internet. So, I run just one line of the code and, as a result, another person working on another computer can use his/her browser to see content of my directories.
But I wander if I can make more complicated things. For example, somebody uses his/her browser to load my Python program with a set of parameter (example.py?x=2&y=2) and, as a result, he/she sees the HTML page generated by the Python program (not the Python program).
I also wander if I can process html form submitted to the SimpleHTTPServer.
While it is possible, you have to do pretty much everything yourself (parsing request parameters, handle routing, etc).
If you are not looking to get experience in creating web-frameworks, but just want to create a small site you should probably use a minimalistic framework instead.
Try Bottle, a simple single-file web framework: http://bottlepy.org
Maybe the VerseMatch project and related recipes over at ActiveState is something you would be interested in examining? It implements a small application using the standard library for dynamic running.
have you considered using CGIHTTPServer instead of SimpleHTTPServer? Then you can toss your scripts in cgi-bin and they'll execute. You have to include content-type header and whatnot but if you're looking for quick and dirty it's real convenient