HTML / JQuery-> Python

Question

I'm new to using Python in a web development environment (I've previously just used it to write scripts I run on the command line). I'm hoping to send some input parameter from an HTML page via AJAX, run a python script, and then send back to the webpage a JSON object generated by my python script. I'm trying to get this example running just to get a sense for how this works:

http://davidderiso.com/post/6168199987/using-python-and-jquery#disqus_thread

I'm getting this error message from test.py:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 501 (Unsupported method     ('POST'))

Do I need to be running this python script with something like flask or bottle? Sorry, I'm a total newbie when it comes to this stuff!

Thanks!

Answer 1

That tutorial is supposed to be showing you how to do it without a framework, but it's quite incomplete. For example, it doesn't talk about how you should be accessing the HTML file in the first place. If you simply open it as a file in your browser, you'd probably get that error: you need it to be served by Apache (which as he does point out is built in for OSX) - http://localhost/my_html_file.html might work.