Simple discussion of python cgi approaches?

[Steve Holden]

Kylotan wrote:
[...]
> 
> The main problem I face is that I don't know what platform my scripts
> will
> eventually run on. I may not have the ability to install extra
> software so I
> need to keep my scripts close to the CGI standard. That is, one file
> per script,
> using the cgi module for form processing and print for output. I don't
> mind
> having to redirect stdout or call these scripts indirectly instead of
> via
> their __main__ functions, but writing to specific APIs (beyond a small
> wrapper
> layer, of course) is not an option at the moment.
> 
> So I'm hoping for simple solutions that will involve no more than a
> few changes
> to each script, whereas most of the solutions that seem to be
> available require
> me to use their own request objects, or to treat pages as callable
> functions within an overall page as mod_python seems to require.
> 

Well, what you've just said probably rules out both the approaches I 
chose to write about, but you've also defined your problem much more 
closely and so someone else migth be able to offer more helpful advice.

regards
  Steve