Get parameters from URL using CGI

[Ian Leitch]

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abcd wrote:
> i want to create a CGI script which simply prints out values given via
> the URL (such as when a GET is performed).
> 
> So if I have a script named, foo.cgi ....and I access it by going to:
> 
> http://www.somesite.com/cgi-bin/foo.cgi?name=john&age=90
> 
> I want foo.cgi to print out:
> name: john
> age: 90
> 
> 
> how do i get the values from the URL like that?
> 
> thanks

>>> from urlparse import urlparse
>>> dict([n for n in [i.split('=') for i in
urlparse('http://www.somesite.com/cgi-bin/foo.cgi?name=john&age=90')[4].split('&')]])
{'age': '90', 'name': 'john'}
>>>

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