debugging CGI scripts

[Adam Vandenberg]

lynx <a at b.c> wrote in message
news:pJ%n5.43052$QD5.426611 at news.corecomm.net...
> any good, simple work-even-remotely-alike for perl's CGI::Carp out there,

Here is something I use for debugging Python CGI scripts.
It's based on various other similar debugging scripts I found and glommed
together.
--- debug.py ---
#!/usr/bin/python
import os, sys, string
import cgi

filename = os.environ["PATH_TRANSLATED"]

# Grab the real stdout from the script we are trying to debug
import StringIO
real_stdout = sys.stdout
sys.stdout = StringIO.StringIO()

try:
 execfile(filename)
 real_stdout.write( sys.stdout.getvalue() )
except:
 real_stdout.write ("Content-type: text/html\n\n")

 real_stdout.write ("debugging: " + filename + "<br><br>")

 import traceback

 IOBuffer = StringIO.StringIO()
 traceback.print_exc(file=IOBuffer)

 HTML = IOBuffer.getvalue()
 HTML = string.replace(HTML,"&","amp;")
 HTML = string.replace(HTML,"<","<")
 HTML = string.replace(HTML,">",">")
 HTML = string.replace(HTML,"\n","<br>")
 HTML = string.replace(HTML,"\t","   ")

 real_stdout.write("<tt>")
 real_stdout.write(HTML)
 real_stdout.write("</tt>")

 sys.exit(0)


I place this in my web's root folder and include it in the path.
Debug, send tracebacks to browser: http://adamv.com/debug.py/toy/test.py

Hope this helps,
Adam Vandenberg, Pythoneer 3rd class.