[Tutor] CGI Programming in Python

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On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:50:19PM -0700, Britt Green wrote:
| Hello all,
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| I've been trying to find some good sites for CGI programming in Python.
| But so far I'm not having much luck. I'm hoping the members of this
| mailing list can send a few sites my way; sites that are CGI
| newbie-friendly! :)

google for CGI.  It's pretty much the same in any language.  It works
like this :
    o   an HTTP request arrives at the web server

    o   it forks and execs your script

    o   when your script is invoked, certain environment variables are
        set (any of the CGI pages found through google will explain them)

    o   you want to import the 'cgi' (or 'cgilib', whatever it's
        called) module in your script.  It will parse the request and
        provide you with an object to extract all the form values
        from.

    o   the rest is just python programming and printing valid HTML on
        stdout

3 and 4 are the only interesting steps for you, and the cgilib module
takes care of the details.  The library reference tells you the
interface to it.

Once you understand how CGI works, take a look at zope to build a
non-trivial web application.

HTH,
-D

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