Newbie CGI problem
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Fri Feb 18 12:36:10 EST 2005
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import cgi
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
> print "hi"
>
> Gives me the following in my browser:
>
> '''
> hi
> Content-type: text/html
>
>
> hi
> '''
>
> Why are there two 'hi's?
You have chosen a bad name for your script: cgi.py.
It is now self-importing. Rename it to something that doesn't clash with the
standard library, and all should be OK.
Peter
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