How do I use Python serverside with shared hosting?

Question

I've been told by my hosting company that Python is installed on their servers. How would I go about using it to output a simple HTML page? This is just as a learning exercise at the moment, but one day I'd like to use Python in the same way as I currently use PHP.

Answer 1

When I used shared hosting I found that if I renamed the file to .py and prefixed it with a shebang line then it would be executed as Python.

#!/usr/bin/python

Was probably pretty bad practice, but it did work. Don't expect to be able to spit out any extensive web apps with it though.