How do I create a webpage with buttons that invoke various Python scripts on the system serving the webpage?

Question

I\'m a hobbyist (and fairly new) programmer who has written several useful (to me) scripts in python to handle various system automation tasks that involve copying, renaming

Answer 1

This simple approach requires nothing except Python standard library. Create this directory structure:

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|-- cgi-bin
|   `-- script.py
|-- index.html
`-- server.py

You put your scripts in "cgi-bin" directory, "index.html" contains links to scripts in "cgi-bin" directory (so you don't have to type them manually, although you could), and "server.py" contains this:

import CGIHTTPServer
CGIHTTPServer.test()

To run your server, just run "server.py". That's it, no Apache, no other dependencies.

HTH...