[Tutor] CGI problem

[David Holland]

I am trying to write a CGI program here is the code of
the HTML
<FORM ACTION="cgi-bin/party2.py" METHOD="POST">
	<P><SELECT NAME="language">
		<OPTION SELECTED>ALL
		<OPTION>Bromley
		<OPTION>Lewisham</OPTION>

Here is the python
#!/usr/bin/env python

boroughdict = {
    'BROMLEY': 0.5,
    'LEWISHAM':0.1
    }


class dummy:                    #mocked up input obj
    def __init__(self, str):
        self.value = str

import cgi, string
form = cgi.FieldStorage()

def showboroughinfo(form):
    try:
        choice = form[inputkey].value
    except:
        choice = 'BROMLEY'
        print "not getting from form"
    choice = string.upper(choice)
    info = boroughdict[choice]
    #this is not being called    
    newinfo = calcinfo(info)
    print "<H3></H3><P><PRE>"
    print cgi.escape (newinfo) 
    print "</PRE></P><BR>"
    #print '<HR>'
    
def calcinfo(info):
    #this is calcuate stuff
    info = str(info)
    return info

print "Content-type: text/html\n"
print "<TITLE>Languages</TITLE>"
print "<H1>This will happen</H1><HR>"

        
showboroughinfo(form)
#print "Hi"
print '<HR>'

For some reason it is not get the info in the try
block.
If I do not have the try block I get this message :-
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/home/david/Documents/pyprogramming/cgi-bin/party2.py",
line 45, in ?
    showboroughinfo(form)
  File
"/home/david/Documents/pyprogramming/cgi-bin/party2.py",
line 19, in showboroughinfo
    choice = form[inputkey].value
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/cgi.py", line 552, in
__getitem__
    raise KeyError, key
KeyError: 'borough'


Why is the input key not working ?
Thanks in advance.


	
	
		
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