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From: Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com>
To: python-list@python.org
Sent: Thu, November 11, 2010 10:20:03 AM
Subject: Re: is there an Python equivalent for the PHP super globals like
$_POST, $_COOKIE ?
On 11-11-2010 19:01, Steve Holden wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 9:22 AM, Stef Mientki wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> finally got Python running at my server.
>>
>> Now I would like to replace the PHP server scripts with Python ( for easier
>>maintenance).
>>
>> But I can't find how th get to PHP's equivalent of $_Post and $_Cookie ?
>> Google finds lots of links, but I can't find the answer.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Stef Mientki
> Stef:
>
> Moving from one language to anther is not just a matter of
> transliterating the code. Of you try that you will end up with a messy
> code base that looks like PHP written in Python.
- Steve I agree with you,
- but replacing a number of 3 to 10 lines of code scripts won't create a mess
;-)
So, assuming you want the 'straight ahead' (i.e. no framework, like Django)
your
looking at vanilla CGI programming.
form = cgi.FieldStorage() # parse query string, handles decoding and GET and
POST
print "<p>name:", form["name"].value
http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html
Enjoy! :)
David
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