Is There a CGI Expert In the House?? Good Grief!!

[Ben Ocean]

Steve, please let me know if you're getting these emails: I've tried 
repeatedly to respond to you with, apparently, no luck, even though my 
responses aren't bouncing. I don't know why this decided to post when it 
did: this question was answered some time ago.
BenO

At 04:19 PM 5/4/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>"Ben Ocean" <zope at thewebsons.com> wrote in message
>news:mailman.988991952.4072.python-list at python.org...
> > Hi;
> > Thanks for trying to help me with this CGI script! Here's what I'm running
> > into right now. I'm still trying to capture the data that's being sent to
> > the buffer (from a foreign URL as a result of visitors filling out a
> > script). I appear to be successful in doing this, but for some reason
>can't
> > extract the data. Here's my code:
> >  >>>
> > test = sys.stdin.readline()
> > if (test != None):
> >    print "test part 1 successful"
> > f = open("outfile.txt", "w")
> > sys.stdout = f
> > sys.stdout.writelines([test])
> > sys.stdout = sys.__stout__
> > sys.stdin = sys.__stdin__
> > f.close()
> > <<<
> > The test (part 1) is successful, but when I try to send it to outfile.txt
> > nothing gets printed to the file. I can't cycle through the data in a for
> > loop, either. I have no idea what's in *test*! I'd love to know. How do I
> > extract this data?
>
>Ben:
>
>Probably the easiest thing is to suck the whole thing in at once, and write
>it out the same way. There's no need to assign your file to sys.stdout to
>write it. Here's something that stands a chance of working, but remember:
>the sys.stdin you are reading is probably going to be the raw data from the
>web form, so it will look a bit weird. Still, I imagine anything at all
>would be welcome about now...
>
>test = sys.stdin.read()
>f = open("outfile.txt", "w")
>f.write(test)
>f.close()
>
>That's all!
>
>Line-by-line you could do it this way:
>
>f = open("outfile.txt", "w")
>while 1:
>     line = sys.stdin.readline()
>     if not line:
>         break
>     f.write(line)
>f.close()
>
>Feedback, please...
>
>regards
>  Steve
>
>
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