CGI Scripts

[Robert Rutkowski]

I'm new to programing and in an effort to learn python, I'm trying to write
a simple text counter. The script is called with an SSI exec command. The
path on my server is correct and the script appears to work. I receive no
errors, and the script runs just fine locally on my machine.
My problem is that the script returns a result via the print command. {print
`count()`}, but when I try to run the script on my server, I get no results,
just a blank page.
Am I missing something? Is there a module that I need to pass the result to
to see it in my web browser.

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#!/usr/contrib/bin/python

#Python Counter Script

import cgi
import string

def count():
    count = open('counter.log', 'r+')
    strhits = count.read()
    hits = string.atoi(strhits)
    hits = hits+1
    count.seek(0, 0)
    count.write(`hits`)
    count.close()
    return hits

print "Content-type: text/html"
print
print `count()`
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