title: File Upload and Processing using Python
body: <p>I was approached by a friend a few days ago - who has very little programming experience, and he has a project that he asked for some help with.</p>
  
  <p>Basically - this is what he is attempting to accomplish:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1.) Create a website that can accept text files as input.
  2.) Read said file and pass the parameters contained in the 
      file to a python script.
  3.) Output these results of the script on the same webpage upon completion.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>He knows a small amount of Python (enough to write the processing script), but he has no idea where to go from here. I made a quick example for him using an ASP page that read in a file, and used IronPython to pass the parameters into a script file and output the results, which worked just as I had expected it.</p>
  
  <p>However - for him I was hoping to guide him in the right direction of developing a much simpler application to perform this and was hoping to find some suggestions or hear some thoughts on different approaches. I figure due to his lack of experience the simpler, the better.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks guys.</p>