[Tutor] Python and Web Pages?

[Paul Tader]

I have a couple programs/scripts that I want to write that need to be 
web-based.  Can Python (and a little HTML) accomplish this?  Or are 
other languages like PHP, or Perl better suited?

A little more detail:
One project is to make a web page that users login to with a name and 
password, choose from a list of "canned" directory structure (ie. how 
many subdirectories, top-level name, maybe permissions, etc), hit a "GO" 
button and then the directories are made.

Another example is a web-based form that users interface with a mySQL 
database.  Simple additions/changes/deletions.  Basic stuff.

Thanks,
Paul

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[Tutor] pyopenssl - extracting email certificates information

[Paul Tader]

Given a raw email I've been able to extract the cryptographic signature
(in encoded or decoded format) into a string.  I would like to like to use
the pyopenssl crypto module
(http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/pyOpenSSL.html/openssl.html) to further
extract things like the Signing Authority and the DN subject. So far the
"object orientating" part of python is something I haven't fully grasped
yet so I don't know how to load my certificate string into the pyopenssl
objects so that I can apply its methods.

It's not pretty, but what I have so far...


import os
import sys
import re
import base64

f = open("test.mail", "r")
contents = f.read()
r1 = re.compile('MI.{70}')
r2 = re.compile('')
s1 = r1.search(contents)
a = int(s1.start())
s2 = r2.search(contents, a)
b = int(s2.end())
hash = contents[a:b]
encoded = "begin-base64 644 signature.out\n" + hash + "\n"
decoded = base64.decodestring(encoded)

f.close()


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[Tutor] Easiest way to display HTML

[Paul Tader]

I have a collection of python scripts that are written to be run from the
command prompt.  I now want to write the output (tables mostly) to a
webpage using cron or as a cgi script.  I've read about most web
frameworks out there but many seem to be more than what I'm looking for. 
The closest I've seen is HTMLgen, but that project seems to be very quiet.

In short, what would you use to quickly mark up your scripts simple output?

Thanks,
ptader

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