Is There a CGI Expert In the House?? Good Grief!!

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue May 1 18:46:54 EDT 2001


Ben Ocean wrote:

> I have been trying DESPERATELY to get the answer to this question. I was
> under the impression that Python was an ideal language for CGI scripting.

doesn't matter much if you don't have a clue what you're doing.

> What the &*()$)*_% is a data buffer and how the &*(&*% do I get the data
> out of it?

did you try reading from the stdin stream?

    data = sys.stdin.read()

or perhaps:

    data = sys.stdin.read(int(environ['CONTENT_LENGTH']))





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