Some newbie cgi form questions...

Robert Kern rkern at ucsd.edu
Sun Aug 7 15:46:21 EDT 2005


Diez B.Roggisch wrote:
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/var/www/users/senta/html/gobooks/cgi/form.py", line 35, in ?
>>    if not form.keys()[key]:
>>TypeError: list indices must be integers
>>
>>As you can see,  I am using python 2.3 (my web service provider is
>>responsible for this - I'd use 2.4.1 if I could)
> 
> That code above can't work - you want something like
> 
> if not form.keys() in key:

This thread has to rank somewhere in the top ten threads with respect to 
the density of obviously wrong code samples.

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