The article provides important information about using Python on MilesWeb hosting servers.<\/p>\n
Choosing the correct permissions for Python script files depends on the script’s particular function :<\/p>\n
To use Python CGI script files that can be publicly accessible through the web, you need to set the file permissions to 755 (i.e. read, write and execute permissions for the user. Also read and execute permissions for the group and world). You don’t have to provide the world write permission to the Python script.<\/p>\n
To use Python script files that you only run on the command line, you need to set the file permission to 700 (i.e. read, write and execute permissions for the user and there is no need of any permission for the group and world.)<\/p>\n
Python script files have a .py or .cgi extension. However, with the file permissions, the file extension that you use generally, depends on the script’s function:<\/p>\n
The Python script files that generate the web output accessible to the public use the .cgi extension.
\nThe Python script files that you run only through the command line, and script files which do not generate web output, should use the .py extension.<\/p>\n
To determine which Python version is set as default on the server, type the following command :<\/p>\n
python -V<\/pre>\n# Find a path to the Python executable<\/h2>\n