Get data from textarea in HTML using Python
Question
I am trying to print out to Python what the user types inside the textarea element in the HTML page.
If I type "hello world" into the textarea field and click the button 'Add comment', I would like to see it print out to the Python console. Can anyone help me with this?
a = ""
a += '<html> \r\n'
a += '<head> \r\n'
a += '</head> \r\n'
a += '<body> \r\n'
a += '<form method="post"> \r\n'
a += '<textarea name="comment101" style="width:300px; height: 70px; maxlength="300"; display:none;"> \r\n'
a += '</textarea></br> \r\n'
a += '<input type="submit" name="comment101" value="Add comment" /> \r\n'
a += '</form> \r\n'
a += '</body> \r\n'
a += '</html> \r\n'
b = open("test.html", "wb")
b.write(a)
b.close()
3 answers
solution1
0 2015-07-31 03:10:53
So looking from your conversion in the comments you seem to be a bit confused as how this works. You cannot use python natively to listen to a button click of an html file and then retrieve this information. Your going to need a framework in between to help you do this. I have listed some of the following below.
Flask - This is my personal favorite, its light weight and easy to understand. As it says on their website this is not a full blown framework its a microframework. Easy to use and understand, a great place to start learning about frameworks.
Django - Much more advanced a quite a bit more complicated to start learning. This framework has tons of features and its great in many cases. Its going to be a bit harder for someone new to frameworks to understand Django.
Both of these are going to require quite a bit of reading but are well worth it and will be a great way to advance your programming skills.
solution2
0 2015-07-31 03:19:43
You can also use CherryPy, which is a minimalist python framework which can help you achieve connecting your html code with native python code. CherryPy You can go through the documentation to easily achieve what you are trying.
solution3
0 2015-07-31 03:33:38
I think you should start with Django to be honest. They have an excellent tutorial to get you up and running. It is also feature complete as a framework. When you get more comfortable with Python and Django, I would move to frameworks like Flask that are excellent but require you to assemble the pieces.
But you will likely need to learn more about virtualenv , which is made easier with the virtualenvwrapper , and pip before you get started on that adventure
I would be happy to answer any additional questions you may have... Python and it's associated frameworks and tools are such a joy to work with.
Codeacademy has some good and free tutorials btw
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