Trying to write CGI script with python...

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Sat Apr 30 23:00:17 EDT 2005


Jason Mobarak wrote:
> M.E.Farmer wrote:
> 
>>I found an excellent example that was posted by the F-bot.
> 
> [...]
> 
>>try:
>>    import myscript
>>    myscript.main()
>>except:
>>    print "Content-Type:", "text/html"
>>    print
>>    file = StringIO.StringIO()
> 
> 
> Note: it's usually a very bad idea to name -anything- "file" unless you
> intentionally want to clobber the name of the built-in file object.
> 
[...]
In fairness to the effbot I feel duty bound to suggest that the example 
may have been produced before file() was a built-in function. The effbot 
is usually reiable on programming matters.

regards
  Steve
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