CGI question on input type=text form elements

Thu Oct 11 14:28:41 EDT 2001

You must have made a silly mistake somewhere. Either that or there is
a browser/web server issue. This works fine for me on apache under
linux, python 2.1.1

[index.html]
<html>
<form action='poster.cgi'>
<input name='test_1' type='text'>
<input name='submit' value='submit' type='submit'>
</form>
</html>

[poster.cgi]
#!/usr/bin/python

import cgi

form = cgi.FieldStorage()

print 'Content-type:text/html\n\n'
for f in form.keys():
    print str(f) + ': ' + str(form[f].value)

"DeepBlue" <DeepBlue at DeepBlue.org> wrote in message news:<tsb9cb92pql297 at corp.supernews.com>...
> I am running into a strange problem with a form while using CGI module in
> Python.
> Let us say I have the following form:
> <form>
> <input type="text" name="text_1">
> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="test">
> </form>
> 
> Now, let us say that test_form=cgi.FieldStorage()
> If the above form is submitted without typing anything in the text field one
> expects test_form.keys() to generate:
> ['submit']
> 
> But i am getting:
> ['text_1', 'submit']
> Which is unexpected, and in my case, undesirable.  What am I doing wrong?
> DB