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    On 11-11-2010 19:36, david wright wrote:
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              <hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b>
              Stef Mientki <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:stef.mientki@gmail.com"><stef.mientki@gmail.com></a><br>
              <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
              <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:python-list@python.org">python-list@python.org</a><br>
              <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu,
              November 11, 2010 10:20:03 AM<br>
              <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
              Re: is there an Python equivalent for the PHP super
              globals like $_POST, $_COOKIE ?<br>
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                On 11-11-2010 19:01, Steve Holden wrote:</span></font><br>
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                style="font-size: 10pt;">> On 11/11/2010 9:22 AM,
                Stef Mientki wrote:</span></font><br>
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              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">>> hello,</span></font><br>
            <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="arial,
              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">>></span></font><br>
            <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="arial,
              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">>> finally got Python
                running at my server.</span></font><br>
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              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">>></span></font><br>
            <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="arial,
              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">>> Now I would like to
                replace the PHP server scripts with Python ( for easier
                maintenance).</span></font><br>
            <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="arial,
              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">>></span></font><br>
            <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="arial,
              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">>> But I can't find how
                th get to PHP's equivalent of $_Post and $_Cookie ?</span></font><br>
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              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">>> Google finds lots of
                links, but I can't find the answer.</span></font><br>
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              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
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              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">>> thanks,</span></font><br>
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              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">>> Stef Mientki</span></font><br>
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              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">> Stef:</span></font><br>
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              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">></span></font><br>
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              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">> Moving from one language
                to anther is not just a matter of</span></font><br>
            <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="arial,
              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">> transliterating the code.
                Of you try that you will end up with a messy</span></font><br>
            <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="arial,
              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">> code base that looks like
                PHP written in Python.</span></font><br>
            <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="arial,
              helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span"
                style="font-size: 10pt;">- Steve I agree with you,</span></font><br>
            <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="arial,
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                style="font-size: 10pt;">- but  replacing a number of 3
                to 10 lines of code scripts won't create a mess ;-)</span></font><br>
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            <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="arial,
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                style="font-size: 10pt;">So, assuming you want the
                'straight ahead' (i.e. no framework, like Django) your
                looking at </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span"
              size="3" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span
                class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">vanilla</span></font><font
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                style="font-size: 10pt;"> CGI programming.</span></font></div>
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                  style="font-size: 13px;">form = cgi.FieldStorage() #
                  parse query string, handles decoding and GET and POST </span></font></div>
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                  style="font-size: 13px;">print "<p>name:",
                  form["name"].value</span></font></div>
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    thanks David,<br>
    looks that was what I was looking for,<br>
    I'll investigate all the properties of Fieldstorage.<br>
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    thanks,<br>
    Stef<br>
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