We really need to see the form also. If ie. you are uploading a file, you need to set enctype="multipart/form-data". Which is easy to forget. regards Max M "Jeff Hinrichs" <jlh at home.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1009948862.8390.python-list at python.org... > I'm playing with python's cgi module and I am encountering an unexpected > problem.