Debugging CGI tips wanted...

[Erik Max Francis]

"John D." wrote:

> I want to know if there's a way to emulate this from the Python
> command line,  to make debugging easier.

Just pipe your test data in from the command line, or replace sys.stdin.

> Another question....  How can I tell if a Python veriable is undefined
> at runtime.

Easy:

>>> hguhagluahguahg
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'hguhagluahguahg' is not defined

So:

>>> try:
...  hguhagluahguahg
...  print "defined"
... except NameError:
...  print "not defined"
... 
not defined

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