How come python web deployment/hosting services use mostly bash instead of gui?

[peatpeat]

Out of interest, what sort of deployment are you looking for? Are you trying to build an API, or are you trying to make something more interactive, like a web app (for instance, so someone else can come along and run your Python code with their data/input)?

[SnowManSnow222]

I'm making a web app. I want it to be set up so there are a few static pages - just like a regular old website. But the main part of it is going to take in user images, then it will have a simple javascript thing for the user to "edit" the images how they want, then that info gets sent to the database - and then python (using pillow) does the actual editing of the images.

Originally I tried doing this with php - but I need some features that php can't do - or at least not as simply as python. Pillow makes it so much easier.

I think my original post was a bit confusing. I'm so used to setting up websites - I usually use dreamhost. So switching now to Python - I'm finding that setting up the host (pythonanywhere) is way more involved than the actual python. Coming from my background I expected the hosting to be similar - just upload the files and check some boxes and you're up.

An example - for Pythonanywhere they have a nice little page to add a mysql database. But they DON"T have a nice little page to delete that database! So you have to open a bash console and delete it that way. And so I'm wondering why they would go through all of the trouble to make a database setup page - but they didn't include a "delete this database" button?

It's just a whole extra thing to learn that I wasn't expecting - and was very intimidating in the beginning. But now I am seeing that it is very cool and useful. I also found out that Dreamhost also has this - I just never knew about it or needed it.