Passing parameters via URL

[Colin Meeks]

Thanks Harald, solution was bang on.  Problem now solved.

Colin

"harald " <harald at skumbad.nu> wrote in message
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Colin Meeks:
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 | I've written some code that produces a web page.  I have the same code
 | replicated several times, with small changes that I use throughout a
site.
 | How can I bring these all into one program so I can make a call like
 |
 |     http://www.xyz.com/program.py?dothis
 |
 | or
 |
 |     http://www.xyz.com.program.py?dothat
 |
 | and have the Python program determine what to do when it receives either
 | dothis or dothat.
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if that is all you want to do, the easiest way would probably be:

 import os

 if os.environ["QUERY_STRING"] == "dothis":
         dothis()
 elif os.environ["QUERY_STRING"] == "dothat":
         dothat()
..etc..

you probably want to use the cgi module if you want
to pass more variables to the script, like
http://www.xyz.com/program.py?do=this&usefulvariable=23

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