Python displayed on http?

[sea]

Heyas

Lets say i have a simple python script:

#!/bin/python

import sys

print("Content-Type: text/plain\n\n")
print("I'm serving python version ", sys.version, " located in ", sys.path)

Which resides inside my www/python directory.

What i had tried is to call it through php, with a include call, figured that either no php was installed, or the include didnt work at all.
I tend to say php is not installed, as an "echo" command inside the php section remained silent.

I had searched google for "how to display python on http", what i had found are plenty of python scripts, but none of them seemed to be 'callable' through webaccess.
That means, how do i display the script properly on the browser?
If i call it with http://URL/python/script.py all i get is the plain text.

Thanks in advance
sea

EDIT:
Basicly my question is: How do i call the python script from html?
With the search term above, i only get results on how to generate html from phyton, which is not what i want.
So, suggestions for another search term are very welcome.

EDIT:
Thought i post the things i had found, but dont help me any further (maybe i dont understand them properly )
http://docs.python.org/howto/webservers.html
http://wiki.python.org/moin/CgiScripts
If i copy paste them onto the server, the html parts are displayed, but the python code is displayed either.. the code, not the 'result' of the code

[pete_1967]

Python is like Perl, you use it to build your application. Never heard of ability to embed Python to a PHP script either.
Good info on web programming with Python: http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebProgramming

You also need mod_python installed on Apache.

[rolandm]

What you wrote is basically a CGI program: to make Apache executing the script, it has to be declared as script e.g. using the directive ScriptAlias.

More information at httpd.apache.org in /docs/2.0/howto/cgi.html

A plain CGI script must do everthing itself. As far as I still remember (it's a long time ago I've used CGI ):

• print the content type
• print an empty line
• print the html document

As alternative you could use mod_python Apache module. Using mod_python you basically use an embedded Python interpreter inside Apache rather than then CGI (=common gateway interface?) that is not aware of whether Python or any other script or binary is used.

See more information at /www.modpython.org in Tutorial: /live/current/doc-html/tut-what-it-do.html.

I expect that mod_python is more performant and in the long run easier to use than using Python scripts as plain CGI scripts. I never used it but this guess is based on using mod_perl that provides similar functionality for Perl in Apache.

PS: obviously I am considered as too dangerous to post URLs as urls

[marko]

Note, your script quote post #1 first line is wrong:

#!/bin/python

should be

#!/usr/bin/python

at least on a standard Fedora system, python is in the /usr/bin directory