My goal is to click an HTML button on my Django web page and this will execute a local python script.
I am creating a local web application as an interface to a project. This will not be hosted and will always just run on my local machine. My project is run with a python script (which carries out numerous tests specific to my project). All I need is for a button in my web interface to execute this script on my machine.
I have a template index.html where the whole web page is located. I presume I need to call some form of views function possibly when the button is pressed?
How to execute python code by django html button?
This question suggests:
def index(request):
if request.method == 'GET':
return render(request, 'yourapp/index.html', {'output': ''})
elif request.method == 'POST':
py_obj = mycode.test_code(10)
return render(request, 'yourapp/output.html', {'output': py_obj.a})
I tried this just as a test but nothing happened when I went to the URL (located in the appropriate views.py):
def runtest(request):
print(Hello World)
Popen(['gnome-terminal', '-e', 'echo Hello World'], stdout=PIPE)
return
However I don't quite understand if this achieves what I need it to, I am struggling to understand what the answer is suggesting.
Where in the Django framework can I specify a call to a local python script when a button is pressed?
(I have very limited experience with web applications, this is simply just meant to be a simple interface with some buttons to run tests)