Getting a Form To Work

Sun Jul 19 11:52:45 EDT 2009

Victor Subervi wrote:
> Hi;
> I have the following in a *.py page for the Web:
> 
> from primeNumbers import primeNumbers
> 
> try:
>   num = form.getfirst('num')
> except:
>   num = ''
>   msg = "Oops"
> 
> print "Content-Type: text/html"
> print
> print """
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" 
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
> <head xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> </head>
> """
> if num != '':
>   try:
>     num = round(float(num))
>     roots = primeNumbers(num)
>     print roots
>   except:
>     msg += "We're sorry! You entered something that is not a number. 
> Please try again.<br />\n"
>     num = ''
> if num == '':
>   print msg
>   print "Num:", num

You get here if num == '', so you're printing out an empty string!

BTW, try not to use bare excepts.

>   print """
> <form action="http://13gems.com/test-Calculators_frame.py" method="post">
> <input type="text" name="num" size="20" maxlength="20" value="Enter 
> number here..." onfocus="this.value=''" />
> <input type="image" src="http://13gems.com/images/search.jpg" 
> name="search" id="search" />
> </form>
> """
> print '</body></html>\n'
> 
> Now, "Oops" never gets printed, nor does the variable num (although a 
> blank space appears to print). I am calling the very page to which the 
> form sends its values. Assuming the imported module works, why don´t I 
> get anything printed?
> 