Newbie CGI problem

aurora aurora00 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 13:08:51 EST 2005


On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:36:10 +0100, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:

> Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
>
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>> import cgi
>> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
>> print "hi"
>>
>> Gives me the following in my browser:
>>
>> '''
>> hi
>> Content-type: text/html
>>
>>
>> hi
>> '''
>>
>> Why are there two 'hi's?
>
> You have chosen a bad name for your script: cgi.py.
> It is now self-importing. Rename it to something that doesn't clash with  
> the
> standard library, and all should be OK.
>
> Peter
>

You are genius.



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