Python: How to create simple web pages without a huge framework? [closed]

Answer 1

mod_python perhaps?

Answer 2

Have you looked up Flask?

It's a much more minimalistic framework, and very easy to set up and get started.

Answer 3

I would recommend CherryPy

import cherrypy
class HelloWorld(object):
    def index(self):
        return "Hello World!"
    index.exposed = True

cherrypy.quickstart(HelloWorld())

Answer 4

Good old CGI is the quickest way to get you started. On most configurations, you just need to drop a python script in 'cgi-bin' and make it executable, no need to install anything. Google for "cgi python", there are lots of tutorials, e.g. this one looks pretty decent.

Answer 5

Sure, you can go really lean with the CGI or wsgiref route. However, you get what you pay for, and I prefer Flask or WerkZeug for all the pain they prevent.

From wsgiref python docs:

from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server

def hello_world_app(environ, start_response):
    status = '200 OK' # HTTP Status
    headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain')] # HTTP Headers
    start_response(status, headers)
    return ["Hello World"]

httpd = make_server('', 8000, hello_world_app)
print "Serving on port 8000..."

# Serve until process is killed
httpd.serve_forever()

Answer 6

Python works well using CGI.

that's the simplest thing you can do: it only needs apache and a working python environment, and is the closest to a standard php setup.

remember that, when using CGI, your python script is responsible for outputting the necessary HTTP headers (sys.stdout.write('Content-Type: text/html\n\n')), but there is a CGI module which is part of the python standard library which greatly helps dealing with the raw stuffs (post/get arguments parsing, header retrieval, header generation).