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From: Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>
Subject: Re: Can anyone help me run python scripts with http.server?
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In a message of Sun, 06 Sep 2015 14:16:37 +0200, Chris Warrick writes:
>Don=E2=80=99t use http.server. Don=E2=80=99t use CGI. This is not how thi=
ngs work in Python.
>
>In Python, you should use a web framework to write your code. Web
>frameworks include Flask, Django, Pyramid=E2=80=A6 Find one that=E2=80=99=
s popular and
>that you like, and learn that. You won=E2=80=99t have any `.py` URLs, ins=
tead
>you will have modern pretty URLs with no extensions. And a lot of
>things will be abstracted =E2=80=94 no manual header creation, help with =
safe
>forms and databases.

This is really great advice, and if your idea is 'but I don't want
anything as _big_ as a framework, look at flask http://flask.pocoo.org/
and bottle http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/index.html  both of which
are tiny microframeworks.

Laura