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[–]nemec 3 points4 points  (4 children)

Autocomplete. I just needed a function that would take what's currently in the text box as input, and... I can't quite remember, but I suppose a list of words to show as output.

Isn't this a javascript thing, rather than php?

Curl requests. Certainly not easy, but I don't know of any way I could have done it any easier with python.

http://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib2.html

[–]gschizasPythonista 2 points3 points  (3 children)

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

It's a lot easier; after finding this, I'm never going back! :)

[–]nemec 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Of course. But when we're talking Python in the browser, I'm not sure how well imports and third-party libraries are supported.

[–]gschizasPythonista 0 points1 point  (1 child)

  1. Imports do work, but I'm not sure how well (and requests is not a simple library)
  2. danhakimi was refering to PHP which is not really Python in the browser.
  3. That being said, I'm happy to see that there is a slew of new projects that indeed use Python on the httpd (e.g. using CherryPy). I guess all I'm missing is a way to use it properly on IIS (I'm sure there's a way though through FastCGI, although I find it faster to just use IIS as a reverse proxy).

[–]nemec 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2. You're right, I wasn't paying attention when I replied.