cloud scripting through browser and evaluate python on server

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Is there any way in a browser, to type python code into an input field, it will then be sent to a local server and executed and the result pushed back to the browser. Basically a browser hosted python notebook, where the code gets evaluated on a different machine. Is there any python package to do this.

something like what ideone.com or picloud do, but opensource and that can install on your own server.

Or any suggestions on how to do it, I have looked around already but have struggled to find something meaningful.

SpliFF · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-28 00:07:58Z

That can be done using the http.server module in Python 3. I've posted an example below. Adapt it to your needs.

import http.server
import socketserver

PORT = 8000

class ScriptHTTPRequestHandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):

    def do_POST(self):
        """ Handle POSTed script """

        try:
            result = eval(self.rfile.read())
            self.send_response(200,'Ok')
            self.wfile.write(result)
        except:
            #handle errors


httpd = socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), ScriptHTTPRequestHandler)

print("serving at port", PORT)
httpd.serve_forever()

Once the server is running create a HTML form with an action of "http://localhost:8000/" and it should execute the do_POST method above. Put your HTML files in the same folder or subdirectories of the server script. See the http.server python docs for full details.

Jan Pöschko · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-27 23:38:18Z

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It might be overkill, but you could have a look at Sage: It's a "free open-source mathematics software system", so you'll get lots of mathematical tools, too, but you can still execute arbitrary Python code. You can try it online at http://www.sagenb.org/ – this is also what you can get locally.

answered Mar 27, 2012 at 23:38

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Wai Yip Tung · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-27 23:53:25Z

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I haven't tried myself. You may want to check out ipython notebook.

answered Mar 27, 2012 at 23:53

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