How to send & receive serialized simple objects across PHP & Python? Of course! JSON
I hacked a client & server PHP programs for part of a demo. However, the notorious memory intensive PHP makes my server process swallowing so much memory (the size of sample data and lots of associative arrays) to a point that is impractical to run. So I decided to bite the bullet to port the server side into Python. Then it was fine until it hit me, “How is the PHP client going to talk to Python server side?” Read more 
Example of using Python to logon & access Ajax (JSON) webpage in the background
We have an application written in PyGtk. Recently, we need to modify the application to access one of our AJAX/JSON webpages in the background. The beauty of AJAX/JSON webpages opens a channel for any applications to easily access the content. Especially for LAMP product, this avoids directly connecting to the database and using specific SQL queries. As long as the webpages are constructed in AJAX/JSON, then the Python cjson or json package can parse the returned JSON result into a dictionary object. Read more
