.cgi problem with web server

Question

The code

#!/usr/bin/env python

import MySQLdb

print \"Content-Type: text/html\"
print 
print \"         


        

Answer 1

I've tidied up the code a bit by inserting linebreaks where necessary and replacing smart quotes with " and '. Do you have any more luck with the following? Can you run it from a terminal just by typing python test.cgi?

#!/usr/bin/env python

import MySQLdb

print "Content-Type: text/html"
print
print ""
print ""
print "
Books
"
print "
"

connection = MySQLdb.connect(user='me', passwd='letmein', db='my_db')
cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.execute("SELECT name FROM books ORDER BY pub_date DESC LIMIT 10")

for row in cursor.fetchall():
    print "
%s
" % row[0]

print "
"
print ""

connection.close()