Run Python File from server on click of html button

Question

I have a python file on my server. I want to run this file whenever user clicks submit button. Both my files .py and .html are in different directories. And I also cant use any framework

How to do this?

use Python framework like Django, Flask, Bottle to create web page. And you need server which can run Python code - Django,Flask, Bottle - or it uses CGI to run scripts in different languages - or it can run PHP which could run Python code. Using only HTML and JavaScript you can't run Python code — furas
– furas, Commented Feb 24, 2020 at 11:54
Agree on @vishakha-mishra comment. You'll need some server side technology to do that. As you want to run a python script, I'd suggest using some python web framework. — cristianoms
– cristianoms, Commented Feb 24, 2020 at 12:25
flask is the simplest flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/quickstart — hounded
– hounded, Commented Mar 3, 2020 at 3:18

James McGuigan · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-24 12:32:26Z

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One option (as suggested by furas) is to use a python framework (Django, Flask, Bottle) on the backend to create an API server. You could equally do this in node with a call to require('child_process').exec()

The other older method is to configure FastCGI on your webserver, which can automatically turn your python file into a url. Here are some stackoverflow answers for that method:

answered Feb 24, 2020 at 12:32

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