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

Python is only a language, to get GET and POST data, you need a web framework or toolkit written in Python. Django is one, as Charlie points out, the cgi and urllib standard modules are others. Also available are Turbogears, Pylons, CherryPy, web.py, mod_python, fastcgi, etc, etc.

In Django, your view functions receive a request argument which has request.GET and request.POST. Other frameworks will do it differently.