[Tutor] .cgi or .py for Python CGIs

Remco Gerlich scarblac@pino.selwerd.nl
Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:16:44 +0100


On  0, Frank Peavy <fpeavy@pop.net> wrote:
> I have seen references to various CGI scripts and some have the .cgi 
> extension and some have a .py extension. Which is correct? Is there a 
> preferred method?

Python doesn't care. It only needs .py when you import modules from another
module.

There *might* be server settings so that it matters, like I can imagine that
on a Windows server the .py is needed to associate it with Python, but on a
Unix server it should never matter, extensions are irrelevant.

So it's probably a matter of taste.

-- 
Remco Gerlich