Reputation: 129
I want to format a .py file (that generates a random face every time the page is refreshed) using HTML, in the Terminal, that can run in a browser. I have chmod`ed it so it should work, but whenever I run in it in a browser, I get an internal service error. Can someone help me figure out what it wrong?
#!/usr/bin/python
print "Content-Type: text/html\n"
print ""
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<pre>
from random import choice
def facegenerator():
T = ""
hair = ["I I I I I","^ ^ ^ ^ ^"]
eyes = ["O O"," O O ",]
nose = [" O "," v "]
mouth = ["~~~~~","_____","-----"]
T += choice(hair)
T += "\n"
T += choice(eyes)
T += "\n"
T += choice(nose)
T += "\n"
T += choice(mouth)
T += "\n"
return T
print facegenerator()
</pre>
</html>
The code works in IDLE, but I can`t it to work on a webpage. Thanks in advance for any help!
Upvotes: 0
Views: 49
Reputation: 9
You need a templating engine like jinja to have this http://jinja.pocoo.org/
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 599788
This is neither valid HTML nor valid Python. You can't simply mix in HTML tags into the middle of a Python script like that: you need at the very least to put them inside quotes so that they are a valid string.
#!/usr/bin/python
print "Content-Type: text/html\n"
print """
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<pre>
"""
def ...
print facegenerator()
print """</pre>
</html>"""
Upvotes: 2