Insane Problem

[Victor Subervi]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Victor Subervi <victorsubervi at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:08 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>
>> Victor Subervi wrote:
>>
>>> Hi;
>>> I have spent 2-3 hours trying to track this bug. Here's the code snippet:
>>>
>>>  form = cgi.FieldStorage()
>>>  fn = getattr(options, 'products')
>>>  ourOptionsNames = []
>>>  optionsNames, doNotUse  = fn('names')
>>>  for name in optionsNames:
>>>    test = table + '-' + name
>>>    print test
>>>    check = form.getfirst(test, '')
>>>    print check
>>>    if check != '':
>>>      ourOptionsNames.append(name)
>>>  Now, when it looks through with test=='products', it doesn't report that
>>> any of the values from the form are checked. However, when I explicitly
>>> write out something like:
>>> print form.getfirst('products-sizes', '')
>>> which I checked on the form from the referring page, it does in fact
>>> print out! My test prints show that 'products-sizes' is being passed to
>>> "check" and should therefore be appended to "ourOptionsNames". But it isn't!
>>> What am I missing here??
>>>
>>>  What do the print statements actually print? Please copy and paste their
>> output.
>>
>
> For the part in question they print __nothing__. That's the point.
> V
>
I believe I mentioned in my first post that the "print test" does print the
exact fields being called from the referring page. The "print check" prints
nothing. Another thing that's strange is that there are two tables of fields
in the referrer page; it will print the first of those tables--whichever of
the two I choose--but not the latter. Perhaps this is a bug in the cgi
interface? Perhaps I should migrate this to mod_python?
TIA,
V
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