Re: [Demexp-dev] Questions

[Lyu Abe]

Hi David,

> It can't work because those two mode are incompatible. Either you are
> running a CGI script (i.e. a Python script that is launch each time
> Apache handles an URL pointing to this script), or either you use
> mod_python and your code runs on a Python interpreter /within/ Apache.
>
> In both cases you should able to get form variables and HTTP headers
> info. But you need to look at the correct doc. Haven't doing that
> myself, I can't help you further.

Okay...

> I suppose you are doing this only to get some HTML generated so you
> can work on the CSS and the user interface.
>
> However, if you plan to invest further in Python:
>  * It might be wise to use an available framework the already do most
> of the work to handle requests, prepare pages, etc. Django seems to be
> a well known framework. We have listed some of them here:
> https://demexp.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:web_client_development_framework
>
>  * You can use the Python ONC-RPC interface (Thomas Petazzoni's
> pydemexp) to talk to the demexp server. Once again, no hurry but for
> the long term it might be better.

Yes sure. I'll try to look into that.

I have a detail question: when using the question_info method, questions 
are returned as a list, but in reversed order (the last question as the 
first element). Is there a very simple way of addressing elements in a 
reversed way in a list? My code is:

#to retreive the first 5 questions
question_test = s.question_info(cookie,0,5)

for qu in question_test[:]:
        ...
        #this is an example:
        unicode_data = qu['q_desc']
        req.write('<td colspan="4"><qu>%s</qu></td>' \
                %(unicode_data.encode('utf8')))
        ...


-Lyu.