Fwd: Running Inline::Python in a CGI script

Forgot to 'reply all'... sorry.

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From: Chris Nighswonger <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: Running Inline::Python in a CGI script
To: Stefan Seifert <[email protected]>


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Stefan Seifert <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Monday 11 March 2013 11:20:36 Chris Nighswonger wrote:
>
> > 2.The second version imports a class from a Python module. The script
> > runs fine when called from the cli. However, it borks when executed as
> > a cgi, complaining of calls to undefined functions/methods. Of course,
> > those functions/methods are in the Python module.
>
> Can you post the script code? Or at least the part dealing with Python?
>

See the Perl script below. The Python module may be seen here:
http://svn.pykota.com/pykota/trunk/pykota/config.py



> When importing Inline::Python it loads and runs the given Python code
> (containing the import statements). Then it inspects the main namespace and
> imports those names into the Perl namespace. I suspect that miniserv.pl
> trickery leads to namespace problems. So could you please try the
> py_new_object() and py_call_function() way of accessing Python? This avoids
> namespace magic and should be more reliable:
>
> # create a Python foo.Bar object and make it look like a Bar object in
> Perl:
> my $bar = py_new_object('Bar', 'foo', 'Bar', 'constructor arg 1');
> $bar->baz();
>

I'll try this and post back the results.

Kind Regards,
Chris

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

BEGIN {
    push(@INC, "..");
};


use Inline  Python      => 'DATA',
            DIRECTORY   => '/usr/share/webmin/pykota/.Inline/';

Inline->init();

my $pykota_conf = new PykotaConfig('/etc/pykota/');
print "Admin mail for the AP400N: " . $pykota_conf->getAdminMail('AP400N')
. "\n";

1;

__DATA__
__Python__

from pykota.config import PyKotaConfig as PykotaConfig