HTML form POST to a python script?

Question

Does anyone know of any good resources for information on how to POST data from a HTML form over to a python script?

Answer 1

For a very basic CGI script, you can use the cgi module. Check out the following article from the Python documentation for a very basic example on how to handle an HTML form submitted through POST:

• Web Programming in Python : CGI Scripts

Example from the above article:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import cgi
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()  # for troubleshooting

print "Content-type: text/html"
print

print """






  
 Sample CGI Script 
"""

form = cgi.FieldStorage()
message = form.getvalue("message", "(no message)")

print """

  
Previous message: %s

  
form

  

    
message: 
  




""" % message