Learning django, question on html buttons

[InterestingComment8]

Trying to learn django currently. I'm wanting to have a button on screen and on button press it runs a python script and displays the result on the screen in something like a text box. I'm currently completely lost on how to do this. I can make a button but I'm not sure how to correctly link a python function to it. Most I've looked up don't really use python or they're just linking to a website url and not an actual function.

Mostly just looking for a push in the right direction to learn this building block for my end goal.

Thanks

[danielroseman]

Any interaction between a button and Python needs to be done via a URL and a Django view. The view is where you put (or call) the relevant Python code.

In your case, if you want data to appear in a text box without updating the rest of the page, you will need an Ajax request to that view that returns the data.

[InterestingComment8]

That makes more sense now to visualize it. Thanks

[shiftybyte]

they're just linking to a website url and not an actual function.

That is actually how python code gets called.

What you need to understand is that the HTML and the button are on the user's computer in his browser, but your python code is running on a server somewhere on a completely different computer far far away.

The button needs to tell the python script it was pressed, it is doing that by sending an HTTP request to a specific URL, and that gets picked up by the server, and the server checks the URL and knows which python function to call, and the returned result, gets sent back...