CGI: Run Script then load page

[Harry George]

Tom Robinson <tom at alkali.spamfree.org> writes:

[snip]
> 
> Coming from a perl background I was surprised there isn't a header
> building function in the cgi module ... any reason behind this, or did
> they just not think of it?
> 

When I came from perl, I thought the same thing, so I built cgipm.py
(a workalike for Stein's CGI.pm).  Others on c.o.l.a told me they just
tended to write raw "print" statements in python, and not worry about
shortcuts.

After about a year of using my cgipm.py, I came to the same
conclusion: The shortcuts hide the verbosity but not the complexity of
HTTP and HTML.  Writing it out raw takes a bit more space but makes
everything obvious -- and thus maintainable by people who have never
heard of perl's cgi.pm or any other package of shortcuts.

So now I write the raw lines, but of course use python-isms to assure
it happens only once, in a non-redundant way.  Still, if you'd like
cgi.pm-style shortcuts, see cgipm.py at:

http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/index.html


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