Can't Write File

[Victor Subervi]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Carsten Haese <carsten.haese at gmail.com>wrote:

> Victor Subervi wrote:
> > Here's
> > a bigger code snippet with the entire try clause:
> >
> >           if 14 < x < 20: # This just shows that it's a pic, not some
> > other type of data
> >             y += 1
> >             w += 1
> >             try: # It does this, because I've printed 'getpic1.py' etc.
> >               getpic = "getpic" + str(w) + ".py"
> >               try:
> >                 os.remove(getpic)
> >               except:
> >                 pass
> >               code = """#! /usr/bin/python
> > import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
> > import MySQLdb
> > import cgi
> > import sys,os
> > sys.path.append(os.getcwd())
> > from login import login
> > def pic():
> >   user, passwd, db, host = login()
> >   form = cgi.FieldStorage()
> >   db = MySQLdb.connect(host, user, passwd, db)
> >   cursor= db.cursor()
> >   sql = "select pic%s from products where ID=%s;"
> >   cursor.execute(sql)
> >   content = cursor.fetchone()[0]
> >   cursor.close()
> >   print content
> > print 'Content-type: image/jpeg'
> > print
> > pic()""" % (str(w), str(i))
> >               script = open(getpic, "w") # I've deleted everything below
> > this line to the except to test
> >               script.write(code)
> >               print '<td><input type="hidden" name="%s" />\n' % str(x)
> >               os.chmod(getpic, 0755)
> >               print '<img src="%s" width="100"><br /><br /></td>\n' %
> > (getpic)
> >               count2 += 1
> >             except:
> >               print '<td>nope</td>'
> >           else:
> >             print '<td>%s</td>\n' % (field)
> >           x += 1
>
> If I'm understanding correctly what you're doing here, you're generating
> an HTML page with image tags, and at the same time you're generating the
> scripts whose purpose it is to serve the corresponding images' data.
> This is a terrible approach for the following reason: If two different
> users request this page for two different product IDs at roughly the
> same time, the getpic scripts for the first user will be overwritten by
> the getpic scripts for the second user before the first user's browser
> had a chance to issue its requests for the results for his getpic scripts.
>
> Rather than auto-generating on-the-fly variants of the getpic scripts
> that only differ in the picture number and product ID, you should have
> just one static getpic script that takes parameters from the URL that
> tell it which image number and product ID to use.
>

I will do that after I fix the problem

>
> This will fix your problem indirectly because then your script won't
> have to write out any files at all.
>

No files are being written at all! No, this doesn't fix the problem! Please
advise.
TIA,
V
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