passing string from one file to another

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In article <e1v58g$3npc$1 at netnews.upenn.edu>, Kun <neurogasm at gmail.com> 
wrote:

>I have a python-cgi form whose sole purpose is to email.
>
>It has the fields 'to', 'from', 'subject', 'body', etc. and if the user 
>fills them out and clicks submit, it will invoke another file called 
>mail.py which uses smtplib to send the message.

Why do you need 2 Python scripts? Why can't the first one use smtplib to 
send the message directly?