CGI: remove variable from Tuple Object query

[Chris Rebert]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Gnarlodious <gnarlodious at gmail.com> wrote:
> Say I send a request like this:
> http://0.0.0.0/Sectrum/Gnomon?see=Gnomon&order=7&epoch=1303541219
>
> This makes for a CGIform of the CGI Tuple Object type:
> FieldStorage(None, None, [MiniFieldStorage('see', 'Gnomon'),
> MiniFieldStorage('order', '7'), MiniFieldStorage('epoch',
> '1303541219.58')])
>
> So the above query should end up as:
> FieldStorage(None, None, [MiniFieldStorage('order', '7'),
> MiniFieldStorage('epoch', '1303541219.58')])
>
> Is there an easy way to remove the first variable from the object?
> Or am I stuck with using urllib.parse.urlparse(query)?

For whatever reason, FieldStorage does not appear to make provision
for item deletion. However, it should be easy to monkeypatch in a
__delitem__ method or write an equivalent external function; just
iterate through and modify the `list` attribute of the FieldStorage
instance. FieldStorage's source, particularly the non-parsing-related
parts, is relatively straightforward:
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Lib/cgi.py

Cheers,
Chris
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