beginner python cgi question

[Rene Pijlman]

Brandon Boles:
>    Address=fields["address"].value
[...]
>KeyError: address
[...]
>    if (fields.has_key("name") and fields.has_key("emailaddr")):
>        SenderName=fields["name"].value
>        Address=fields["address"].value
>        City=fields["city"].value
>        State=fields["state"].value
>...snip...
>
>I think what the problem is that if my form does not have one of the
>fields (except 'name' and 'emailaddr') with data in it, I get this error. 
>What is the best way to fix this?

One way is to use if has_key(), as you already discovered. The other way
is exception handling:

    try:
        Address = fields["address"].value
    except KeyError, e:
        Address = None # and/or report an error
    else:
        # do something with Address

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René Pijlman