I've to run a python script from my HTML page button. When I click on the button, it should run the command "python filename.py". But I'm not getting any solutions, please help!
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You will need a server-side solution. Please look into some web frameworks such as Django and Flask.Ashish Acharya– Ashish Acharya2018-04-24 05:44:17 +00:00Commented Apr 24, 2018 at 5:44
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Sorry to say but this is not possible unless your 'filename.py' is on a server e.g. flask, or else this will not work. If setup a flask server, and with a certain route it runs your code, then you can have your HTML code make a POST or GET request to this flask server, and the code should run.
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Lokesh Singh
After using flask, I've successfully able to run my python script. Thanks for your suggestion @Ben10
Attach a listener to the button and have that listener call your endpoint:
document.querySelector('button')
.addEventListener(() => fetch('runMyScript.php', { method: 'POST' }));
Then have that endpoint run your desired program. In PHP, for example:
<?php
// if you want the page to be able to do something with the result:
$output = `python /home/username/filename.py 2>&1`;
echo $output;
?>
Of course, a real setup better have something to validate
answered Apr 24, 2018 at 5:48
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You can’t.
Python runs in the server. HTML isn’t a programming language, it’s content, and it sits in the browser. About the best you can do is use AJAX to call a function in the server (which you’d have written in Python) and, if it returns a value, return it via AJAX.
