* Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> [2024-06-29 21:46]: > I used to use the cgi module to implement simple python-based cgi > scripts for mere http forms. But it is getting deprecated > https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/#cgi > and concerning form support: > > FieldStorage/MiniFieldStorage has no direct replacement, > but can typically be replaced by using multipart > (https://pypi.org/project/multipart/) (for POST and PUT requests) or > urllib.parse.parse_qsl (for GET and HEAD requests) > > But that multipart project doesn't seem to be packaged in Debian? > (python-multipart seems to be something else, that doesn't seem to > actually provide form content?) > > Do we actually have something in Debian python to replace cgi's > FieldStorage in a simple way?
I haven't used it myself so I'm not sure it would fit your use case, and it might not exactly count as "simple", but Debian does have python3-requests-toolbelt which seems to provide a requests_toolbelt.multipart.decoder.MultipartDecoder. - Fay
