'print' in a CGI app.

Andrew Chalk · Aug 3, 2003

In a Python 2.2 app. running under CGI the statements

print "Hello\n"
print "World"

print both words on the same line in IE6. How do I print the second one on a
new line (i.e. respect the \n in the first statement).

Many thanks!

Dennis Reinhardt · Aug 3, 2003

print "Hello\n"

print "World"

Try

print "Hello \n"
print "World"

or try

print "<pre>"
print "Hello\n"
print "World"
print "</pre>"

Irmen de Jong · Aug 3, 2003

Andrew said:
In a Python 2.2 app. running under CGI the statements

print "Hello\n"
print "World"

print both words on the same line in IE6. How do I print the second one on a
new line (i.e. respect the \n in the first statement).

Umm. This has nothing to do with Python... but hey

Unless your CGI script is set to content-type: text/plain,
you're supposed to print valid HTML.
You'll have more success if you print the following:

print "<html><body>" # begin HTML
print "<pre>" # HTML 'preformatted' block
print "Hello\n"
print "World"
print "</pre>" # end 'preformatted block'
print "</body></html>" # end HTML

--Irmen

Andrew Chalk · Aug 3, 2003

Thanks to you, Timo, Dennis and Irmen. The trick was what I was using
but I thought I must be missing something.

Regards

Patrick Lioi · Aug 3, 2003

Andrew Chalk said:
In a Python 2.2 app. running under CGI the statements

print "Hello\n"
print "World"

print both words on the same line in IE6. How do I print the second one on a
new line (i.e. respect the \n in the first statement).

Many thanks!

Run the app, then go to "View"->"Source" in the browser. $10 says
they are on separate lines. All browsers are expecting HTML output
from CGI scripts. HTML ignores whitespace. The tag comes in
handy for forcing an endline:

print "Hello "
print "World"

Andrew Clover · Aug 3, 2003

Andrew Chalk said:
print "Hello\n"
print "World"

print both words on the same line in IE6.

This is because IE is treating the page as HTML by default, where
whitespace is not significant. If this is not what you want, set the
'Content-Type' HTTP header to something else, eg.:

#!/usr/bin/python

print 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8'
print

print 'Hello'
print 'World'

dan · Aug 4, 2003

This is a random guess, but try:

print "Hello "
print "World"

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