Coming from Perl

Thu Sep 13 04:06:50 EDT 2007

Amer Neely wrote:
> TheFlyingDutchman wrote:
>> On Sep 12, 5:30 pm, Amer Neely <perl4h... at softouch.on.ca> wrote:
>>> I'm a complete newbie with Python, but have several years experience
>>> with Perl in a web environment.
>>>
>>> A question I have, if someone here is familiar with Perl, does Python
>>> have something like Perl's 'here document'? I've just searched and read
>>> some postings on generating HTML but they all seem to refer to various
>>> template utilities. Is this the only way, or am I missing something? I'm
>>> used to generating X/HTML by hand, which makes the here document in Perl
>>> ideal for me. Also, many times a client already existing HTML code that
>>> I can use in a script.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Amer Neely
>>> w:www.webmechanic.softouch.on.ca/
>>> Perl | MySQL programming for all data entry forms.
>>> "Others make web sites. We make web sites work!"
>>
>> I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but Python has a
>> special string with 3 quotes that I believe duplicates part of the
>> functionality of a here document:
>>
>> myHmtlHeader = """
>> <head attribute = "abc">
>> <title>My Page</title>
>> </head>
>> """
>>
>> print myHtmlHeader
>>
>>
>> outputs:
>>
>>
>> <head attribute="abc">
>> <title>My Page</title>
>> </head>
>>
> 
> Well, I have checked everything I can but I'm getting '500 Internal 
> Server Error'. The log files aren't helpful:
> [Thu Sep 13 03:43:00 2007] [error] [client 24.235.184.39] Premature end 
> of script headers: /home/softouch/public_html/cgi-bin/scratch/hello.py
> 
> I can't even get it to run on my home PC running Apache + Win2K. Same 
> error.
> 
> My script:
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import cgitb; cgitb.enable(display=0, logdir=".")
> import sys
> sys.stderr = sys.stdout
> print "Content-Type: text/html"
> print
> 
> print """
> <html>
> <body>
> <div align="center"><font style="font-family:verdana; size:18px">Hello 
> from Python</font></div>
> <br>
> Goodbye.
> </body>
> </html>
> """
> 

I should have added that it runs from the command line OK.

-- 
Amer Neely
w: www.webmechanic.softouch.on.ca/
Perl | MySQL programming for all data entry forms.
"Others make web sites. We make web sites work!"