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JavaScript

Posted by Lewis Turner
Lewis Turner
10,930 Points

calling a python script form jQuery in MAMP

I am trying to setup a local environment on my mac so I have installed MAMP.

I am using the following code to call a python file that I have written, but all it does is output the text of my .py file, it doesnt actually execute it.

What am I doing wrong?

$.ajax({method: "POST",
                url: "../python/newsletter.py",
                data: {email: $("form input").val()}
            })
            .done(function( msg ) {
                alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
            });

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points

I'm not familiar with MAMP, but it looks like the server is just delivering the referenced python file instead of processing it.

Just a guess - but could you have overlooked something in the server configuration that would cause requested files of that type to be implicitly passed through the python interpreter instead of being handled like generic content?

Lewis Turner
Lewis Turner
10,930 Points
Lewis Turner
Lewis Turner
10,930 Points

Yeah. I am definitely missing something, I'm just not sure what yet. I have scrapped MAMP and have gone for an apache setup. The python file I am calling is literally just "print('hello')", just as a trial to see if I can get it to work.

I'm very stuck!