How to implement a minimal server for AJAX in Python?

Question

I want to create a very simple HTML/AJAX based GUI for a Python program. So the frontend is a HTML page which communicates with the program via AJAX. Can you give me a minim

Answer 1

Thanks for a very intuitive example @nikow I was trying to follow your example, but did get an error:

(process:10281): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

I modified your code to meet my needs.

webbrowser.open('file:///home/jon/workspace/webpages/frontend_example/%s' % FILE)
// skipped the port part
httpd = make_server("", 8080, test_app)
// hardcoded it here.

does my html file has to be put on the webserver ? I have not put it there yet !.