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I made a small script that solves an combinatorial optimization problem and I would like put it in a website so users can "play" with it, they could send a list of "points" to the server and this script would use a database to return the best combination of these "points".

The problem is I do not have much experience in web dev. I searched how to make an html button execute an script and I found this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48552343/how-can-i-execute-a-python-script-from-an-html-button#:~:text=To%20run%2C%20open%20command%20prompt,Hope%20this%20helpful.

But there says that an html button calling an python script is not safe. So what would be ideal What would be an ideal, safe alternative so that I could make sure that anyone who accesses my website can execute this script safely?

Frederico Möller
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Well, there's no "easy" answer to your question. What you'd really need to do is to create a web-site in Python on your host computer – using a tool such as Django – and have one of the URLs supported by that website call your script.

Honestly, "what you're asking for here, really isn't the sort of question that StackOverflow is intended to answer." It's too big. Another one of the SE-family sites might be more appropriate, although I'm not quite sure which one ...

Mike Robinson
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The solution that comes to mind would be setting up some Python-API (e.g. with Flask) which you could call with HTTP via JS, having different routes for different usages. Here's a short overview of Flask showcasing how it could be used.

Pascal Stockert
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