python on apache - getting 404

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I edited this question after i found a solution... i need to understand why the solution worked instead of my method?

This is likely to be a silly question. I tried searching other questions that are related... but to no avail.

i am running Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.4 PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.6.2

i have a script called test.py

#! /usr/bin/python
print "Content-Type: text/html"     # HTML is following
print                               # blank line, end of headers

print "hello world"

running it as an executable works...

/var/www$ ./test.py
Content-Type: text/html

hello world

when i run http://localhost/test.py i get a 404 error.

What am i missing?

i used this resource to enable python parsing on apache. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91101

From that same thread... the following code worked.. why? #!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import time

def index(req):

# Following line causes error to be sent to browser
# rather than to log file (great for debug!)

    sys.stderr = sys.stdout

    #print "Content-type: text/html\n"

    #print """
    blah1 = """<html>
    <head><title>A page from Python</title></head>
    <body>
    <h4>This page is generated by a Python script!</h4>
    The current date and time is """

    now = time.gmtime()
    displaytime = time.strftime("%A %d %B %Y, %X",now)

    #print displaytime,
    blah1 += displaytime

    #print """
    blah1 += """
    <hr>
    Well House Consultants demonstration
    </body>
    </html>
    """
    return blah1

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