Running Python script in Django from submit

Question

Perhaps there is a different way of going about this problem, but I am fairly new to using Django.

I have written a custom Python script and would like to run a function or .py file when a user presses a "submit" button on the webpage.

How can I get a parameter to be passed into a Python function from a submit button using Django?

Answer 1

Typically what is done is you'd have your form submit a post request. You'd then intercept the request in your urls.py, where you'd call your function. So if your form looks like this:

<form action="submit" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="info"><br>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

your urls.py would have something like this:

url(r'^submit', views.submit)

and your views.py would have the function that would get the parameters that were passed through the post:

def submit(request):
    info=request.POST['info']
    # do something with info

This link gives a more in depth explanation.