Python-Perl Translation

[Ben Ocean]

Thank you very much!
BenO

At 11:38 AM 1/29/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Others have pointed out using the cgi module instead to do the query-
>string decoding, but a straight translation of your Perl script would
>be as follows:
>
>*  import string, os
>*
>*  user_id, banner_id, page = string.split(os.environ
>['QUERY_STRING'], "&")
>*  redirect = "http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com/u/%(user_id)s/t.asp?
>id=%(banner_id)s&p=%(page)s" % locals()
>*  print "Location: %(redirect)s\n" % locals()
>
>Python doesn't automatically interpolate variables into strings, but
>has to be invoked explicitly using the '%' operator and a supplied
>set of values. Also note that the print statement adds a carriage
>return itself, and so only only one need be included in the argument.
>
>If you are using version 2.0 or later of Python, then you can omit
>importing the string module and instead call split as a method of the
>query string itself:
>
>*  user_id, banner_id, page = os.environ['QUERY_STRING'].split("&")
>
>Note that the urlopen function actually fetches a web page; in this
>case you don't actually want your server-side script to fetch the web
>page itself, but instead return an HTTP header that instructs the
>user's browser to fetch that page.
>
>Hamish Lawson
>
>
>
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