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Does anyone know of any good resources for information on how to POST data from a HTML form over to a python script?
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You can pass information by simply concatenating key and value pairs along with any URL or you can use HTML <FORM> tags to pass information using GET method.
In order to display the HTML file as a python output, we will be using the codecs library. This library is used to open files which have a certain encoding. It takes a parameter encoding which makes it different from the built-in open() function.
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:
Example from the above article:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import cgi
import cgitb; cgitb.enable() # for troubleshooting
print "Content-type: text/html"
print
print """
<html>
<head><title>Sample CGI Script</title></head>
<body>
<h3> Sample CGI Script </h3>
"""
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
message = form.getvalue("message", "(no message)")
print """
<p>Previous message: %s</p>
<p>form
<form method="post" action="index.cgi">
<p>message: <input type="text" name="message"/></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
""" % message
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