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Brent Ritter
1,210 PointsHtml to Python
For work I need to transfer data from a HTML form to a python script that can apply the math needed to the data. How do I get the data from the HTML to be moved over to the python script?
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Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 PointsAre we talking about website scraping or server-side Python?
In website scraping, a Python script that you write visits a webpage, downloads the HTML as a string, and then parses it for content it needs, doing whatever changes it has to before spitting the final product out somewhere. There are a lot of libraries that can help you with this; I'm not too familiar with it myself. A quick Google search should get you a long way. Maybe this can get you started.
With server-side Python, you're using the language a lot like PHP. I haven't really studied Python a whole lot, but my guess is that Python provides a class or set of classes for interacting with forms, GET/POST variables, and the like. Again, I'm not that familiar with Python (it's on my to-do list), but I'm sure that Google has a lot more information on the subject.
I did a quick search myself, actually; here's what I turned up: