Re: Programming pointer? -- options to run Python3 from web page (not via Flask/cgi/Django)

[deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org>]

On 7/25/19 6:45 PM, Carl Fink wrote:
> On 7/25/19 5:06 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 02:16:09PM -0400, deb wrote:
> > > I have a large static html/AJAX .js apache2 site.
> > >
> > > If I want to have a server-side script just to
> > > handle a contact <form> and push mail out;
> > > is there a non-(Django/cgi**/Flask) way to
> > > run a small Python3 script to do this?
> > What not cgi? Isn't that the original and minimal
> > way to accomplish this?
> >
> > > The python3 mail script already works standalone (tests out fine 
> > > from CLI,
> > > on the server).
> > >
> > > I'd rather not Flask out the whole website just to get the ability 
> > > to run
> > > one .py script for contact mail.
> > >
> > > I'd rather not add .php to the server just to do this contact form.
> > >
> > > ** /cgi-bin to run the single python3 script is deprecated [Correct?].
> > Supported by existing protocols and running millions of
> > websites.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > > It is a straight-up HTML5 form ... that USED to post to .aspx.
> > > <form method="POST"  id='contactForm' action="  ?  " >
> > >
> > >
> > > While I would prefer the answer to be python-ish,
> > > it does to Have to be python.
> Is there any specific reason you don't just use mod_python, to remove 
> the overhead of a CGI script?
Lack of knowledge only.

If I can use mod_python to get that one script to run, I'd be mighty happy.

I could not find an example of that, searching around.


Thanks