File: lotto-howto-web.txt
**To enter drawing for a free Python book**
Enter your name and press Submit in web page:
http://learning-python.com/pylotto.html
A confirmation page will verify your lottery sign-up.
Duplicate sign-ups are filtered out during selection.
This page runs the pylotto script described below to
add your name to the players file on a web server.
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Description:
Winners will be selected from among sign-ups at random,
by a Python script which can be viewed online here:
http://www.rmi.net/~lutz/pp4e-updates.html#lotto
As described there, the script's source code is also online:
http://www.rmi.net/~lutz/pylotto.py
The instructor will run this script remotely on the web if
HTTP is allowed (you can run this URL on your own, but its
results will be ignored):
http://www.learning-python.com/cgi/pylotto.py?-show=cgi&-find=file
A fully-local mode may be used if neither POP nor HTTP is
allowed on site:
pylotto.py -find file -show console