I have a
Python script that I use to process a copy of a webpage
downloaded from a website and stored on my MacBook Pro laptop's hard drive to
produce a CSV file from the data within that file. I was running
the script from a
command-line interface (CLI), i.e., a
Terminal window, on the system by issuing a command like
./myscript.py inputfile outputfile where inputfile and
outputfile were the file names and locations of the file holding the
data and the output CSV file, respectively. I wanted to execute that
script from a link on a web page, instead, so I needed a way to pass the
arguments I had been passing on the command line to the
Python script in the
URL that I'd
specify as the link on the web page. One way that you can do that for
Python is explained at
[Tutor] Passing Arguments to a Remote CGI Script where the following
sample Python script is shown:
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"""test.cgi --- a small CGI program to show how one can pass parameters.
"""
import cgi
fs = cgi.FieldStorage()
print "Content-type: text/plain\n"
for key in fs.keys():
print "%s = %s" % (key, fs[key].value)
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