Difference between plain print, and print with format string?

Thu Jan 17 07:06:57 EST 2002

Chris wrote:
> 
> I noticed that in my python cgi script, the following comes up in
> Netscape 4.7 as plain text:
> 
> --------------------
> def htmlHeader():
>   return "Content-type: text/html\n"
> 
> ...
> 
> print htmlHeader()
> 
> print <html tags and stuff here...>
> ----------------------
> 
> This works in IE 5.5, but just dumps the plain html in Netscape 4.7.
> Choosing View | Page Info shows the "File MIME Type", according to
> Netscape, as "text/plain".  Changing the line above to the following
> fixes the Netscape issue:
> 
> print "%s" % htmlHeader()
> 
> So, what's going on here?  What's the difference?

There souldn't be any difference.
Can you give the URL of that example or is it on your local computer.