CGI FieldStorage instances?

[Gnarlodious]

I'm having a hard time understanding this, can someone explain?

Running a CGI with query string:

?action=Find&page=Data

Script includes these lines:

form=cgi.FieldStorage(keep_blank_values=1)
print("Content-type:text/html\n\n")
print(cgi.print_form(form))

Output:

Form Contents:

action: <class 'cgi.MiniFieldStorage'>
MiniFieldStorage('action', 'Find')
page: <class 'cgi.MiniFieldStorage'>
MiniFieldStorage('page', 'Data')


It looks like every variable in the query string instantiates a
MiniFieldStorage with that value, is that the case? And if so, what
sort of cool tricks could I do with that feature? Because so far I am
doing CGI and it is a big old mess. Intercepting every variable is
complicated and confusing. Is there an easier way?

-- Gnarlie

 

[Gnarlodious]

Let me rephrase the question. Say I have a query string like this:

?view=Data&item=9875

What I want to do is simply invoke process "view" with variable
"Data". This would replace my existing query string mess which looks
like this:

if 'view' in form and 'item' in form:
HTML=view(Data, item(9875))

so it just seems like it would be easier to encode the process in the
query rather than filtering the query string.

-- Gnarlie

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Let me rephrase the question. Say I have a query string like this:

?view=Data&item=9875

What I want to do is simply invoke process "view" with variable
"Data". This would replace my existing query string mess which looks
like this:

So... Can you make "view" a "page" (CGI program) with one query
item...

.../view/?item=9875

Or upgrade to some modernistic framework wherein the application is
a monolithic program and the "name/" portion maps to methods/functions
within the application...

 

[Gnarlodious]

        Or upgrade to some modernistic framework wherein the application is
a monolithic program and the "name/" portion maps to methods/functions
within the application...

Yes, that describes what I am looking for! Is there such a modernistic
framework? Links?

-- Gnarlie, K5ZN

 

[Ian Kelly]

Yes, that describes what I am looking for! Is there such a modernistic
framework? Links?

Try Django[1] or TurboGears[2].

[1] http://www.djangoproject.com/
[2] http://www.turbogears.org/

Cheers,
Ian

 

[Gnarlodious]

Try Django[1] or TurboGears[2].

[1]http://www.djangoproject.com/
[2]http://www.turbogears.org/

Thanks, never understood what those programs were for.

-- Gnarlie