[mod_python] When trying to get cgi.FieldStorage() : AttributeError: 'sys' module has no attribute 'argv'

This is because indeed the sys module has no attribute argv inside
subinterpreters. This is a "feature not a bug" and is documented somewhere
in the Python docs.

If you're using the cgi module, just fake the the argv by doing something
like:

import sys
sys.argv = []

then cgi module will be happy.

Grisha

On Sun, 20 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Alain TИsio wrote:

> Hi, I found a message in an archive saying I shouldn't use
> FieldStorage with publisher
> http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2001-January/001086.html
> but I'm not using publisher (or I don't know I am)
> Any idea what's happening ?
>
> Thanks
> Alain
>
> =========== observer_www.py
> import cgi
> items=cgi.FieldStorage()
>
> =========== output
>
> Mod_python error: "PythonHandler observer_www"
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py", line
> 176, in Dispatch
>     module = import_module(module_name, _req)
>
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py", line
> 340, in import_module
>     module = imp.load_module(mname, f, p, d)
>
>   File "/home/observer/scripts/observer_www.py", line 2, in ?
>     items=cgi.FieldStorage()
>
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/cgi.py", line 445, in __init__
>     elif sys.argv[1:]:
>
> AttributeError: 'sys' module has no attribute 'argv'
>
>
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