CGI question

[LordLaraby]

sophie,

If you have the URL in a variable, it's easy to parse it into it's
components (one of which is the query string) like so:

>>> from urllib2.urlparse import urlparse
>>> urlparse( \
"http://user@www.xyz.org:8080/mytext.php;hellothere?this=test+value&and=that+one#anchor")
('http', 'user at www.xyz.org:8080', '/mytext.php', 'hellothere',
'this=test+value&and=that+one', 'anchor')
>>> print _[4]
this=test+value&and=that+one
>>> print _.split('&')
['this=test+value','and=that+one']

Then just use unquote_plus() from urllib to get the original query
arguments.

Hope that fills in some of the missing links. :-)

LL