# cgiutils.py # Copyright 2001 Wichert Akkerman # # Utility functions to make writing CGI scripts in python easier. # Import all system packages we need import os, string, sys, types, cgi, re, Cookie def printerror(msg, *args): "Print a HTML page with an error and exit" print ''' error

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''' if args: print "Error: " + msg % args + '\n' else: print "Error: " + msg + '\n' print "" sys.exit(1) def extractcookies(dict): '''Extract all http cookies that the browser passed to use and merge them in dict.''' if os.environ.has_key("HTTP_COOKIE"): c=Cookie.Cookie(os.environ.get("HTTP_COOKIE")) for key in c.keys(): dict[key]=c[key].value def extractcgiparams(dict): '''Extract all CGI parameters that the browser passed to use and merge them in dict.''' form=cgi.FieldStorage() for frm in form.keys(): if type(form[frm]) is types.ListType: dict[frm]=map(lambda x: x.value, form[frm]) else: dict[frm]=form[frm].value def setcookie(key,value): c=Cookie.Cookie() c[key]=value print c def scriptname(script): '''Return a URI to another script in the same directory.''' if os.environ.has_key("SCRIPT_NAME"): base=re.sub("[^/]*$", script, os.environ["SCRIPT_NAME"]) else: base=script return base # vim: ts=8 sw=8 ft=python nowrap