Separation of Code in CGI App

[Sybren Stuvel]

Rob Cowie enlightened us with:
> I need to create a planner/calendar system using python cgi scripts.
> It is my first CGI app (beyond a few tutorial examples).

Are you sure you want to use CGI? I'd go for mod_python instead if at
all possible, since that'll give you a much better performance.

> To do this, do I just create each of these classes in one,
> monolithic .cgi file?

Please don't. It's much better to put things into modules, and import
them when needed.

> or is it possible to separate these out into different scripts and
> have a 'controller' script call them and pass the relevant
> parameters/data? I guess I could also store the python code in text
> files and use the 'execfile()' function, although it seems to me
> that would be an uneccasary performance hit.

Why that difficult? What's wrong with just doing "from htmlgenerator
import pagexy"?

> If that is possible, is that the right way to go? If not,
> suggestions would be gratefully recieved!

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Sybren
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