Python respond to HTTP Request

Question

I am trying to do something that I assume is very simple, but since I am fairly new to Python I haven\'t been able to find out how. I need to execute a function in my Python

Answer 1

This is indeed very simple to do in python:

import SocketServer
from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler

def some_function():
    print "some_function got called"

class MyHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        if self.path == '/captureImage':
            # Insert your code here
            some_function()

        self.send_response(200)

httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", 8080), MyHandler)
httpd.serve_forever()

Depending on where you want to go from here, you might want to checkout the documentation for BaseHttpServer, or look into a more full featured web framework like Django.