How are POST and GET variables handled in Python?

Question

In PHP you can just use $_POST for POST and $_GET for GET (Query string) variables. What\'s the equivalent in Python?

Answer 1

I've found nosklo's answer very extensive and useful! For those, like myself, who might find accessing the raw request data directly also useful, I would like to add the way to do that:

import os, sys

# the query string, which contains the raw GET data
# (For example, for http://example.com/myscript.py?a=b&c=d&e
# this is "a=b&c=d&e")
os.getenv("QUERY_STRING")

# the raw POST data
sys.stdin.read()