[mod_python] interoperability with cgi module

Look at how it's done in the cgihandler:
http://www.modpython.org/live/mod_python-2.4.1/lib/python/mod_python/cgihandler.py

apache.setup_cgi() is what you need.

as a shortcut, I think 

os.env = req.subprocess_env 

might just do the trick.

Grisha

--
  Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy
       grisha at modpython.org

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Chris Foote wrote:

> Is there any way of getting the CGI environment from mod_python
> (i.e. via req.add_common_vars()) usable by the Python libraries
> standard cgi module ?
> 
> e.g. something like the following (html form POST's to this script):
> 
> import os
> import cgi
> from mod_python import apache
> 
> def handler(req):
> 	req.content_type  = "text/plain"
> 	req.send_http_header()
> 	
> 	req.add_common_vars()
> 	
> 	# add req's CGI vars into the environment
> 	for k in req.subprocess_env.keys():
> 		os.environ[k] = req.subprocess_env[k]
> 
> 	form = cgi.FieldStorage()
> 	cgi.parse_header(str(req.headers_in))
> 
> 	len = int(req.headers_in["content-length"])
> 	form_data = req.read(len)
> 	cgi.parse_qs(form_data)
> 
> 	cgi.test()
> 	if form.has_key("field"):
> 		req.write('field = ' + form["field"].value + '\n')
> 
> 	return apache.OK
> 
> however, the cgi module doesn't display anything for cgi.test()
> and form['field'] doesn't exist.
> 
> I'm new to Python, and especially mod_pythod - am I going about
> this in the wrong way ?  i.e. should I be bothering with the cgi
> module at all ?
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris Foote                        chris at zeus.foote.com.au
> 
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