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So one day you're too lazy to write a fcgi library for your favorite language but you want nonetheless expose an application on the web... Then use python ! There are quite a few frameworks to run fcgi with python, but if you want something easy, I think that flup is for you.

The code below takes care of few aspects for you. First flup span a server talking at port 5555 on localhost. You can configure it to be multi thread is you want to. Then using the cgi module we make sure that the input is clean and ready to use. Finally we run your fantastic application as DOSOMETHING.

I want to share a small snippet of code to upload a file to a remote server as a "multipart/form-data" . The function below gets two arguments. The server url ( ex: http://server.org/upload ) and a filename. First the filename encoded as a "form-data", then we use httplib to POST it to the server. Since httplib wants the host + path in separate stages, we have to parse the url using urlparse.

The receiving server must accept the data and return the location of the newly created resource. There are many snippet on the web, but I felt they were all incomplete or too messy.

a while ago I wrote about enabling the sqlite3 extension with storm . This is how you do it with the Django ORM. The collation is the same and all details are in the old post. The only tricky part is to establish the connection with cursor = connection.cursor() before calling the function to enable the extension.

Today I started learning how to write web forms in django. My quest was to write a simple search form where I could specify multiple criteria . Django is a very nice and flexible framework written in python and it is also reasonably well documented.

I don't feel writing much today. this is the code :

The tricky part was to understand how to re-display the view and to add a new field. This is easily accomplished in django using the formset class that allows to put display together more then one form. In this case the logic is simple.