I should add that this does what I want, but something a little more Pythonic? import cgi, os os.environ["QUERY_STRING"] = "name1=Val1&name2=Val2&name3=Val3" form=cgi.FieldStorage() form dict = {} for key in form.keys(): dict[ key ] = form[ key ].value dict locals().update(dict) name3 -- Gnarlie