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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-08-11 03:28:41 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-08-11 03:28:41 (GMT) |
commit | 84e58ab7223adb7f688e2a640ca1fb0313b81a65 (patch) | |
tree | 626022f6e02868e86c7e99cd392eab40e9ca62bc /Doc/lib/libcgi.tex | |
parent | cd112f5546256a752f56b3bf6ce0ff19ff30a981 (diff) | |
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For the escape() function, added a reference to the quoteattrs() function
in xml.sax.saxutils, since that is the right function to use for quoting
attribute values.
This closes SF bug #444707.
Cleaned up a variety of other minor markup errors.
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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex b/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex index bbdafff..24d6afd 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex @@ -76,16 +76,16 @@ instantiated only once. The \class{FieldStorage} instance can be indexed like a Python dictionary, and also supports the standard dictionary methods -\function{has_key()} and \function{keys()}. -Form fields containing empty strings are ignored +\method{has_key()} and \method{keys()}. The built-in \function{len()} +is also supported. Form fields containing empty strings are ignored and do not appear in the dictionary; to keep such values, provide -the optional \samp{keep_blank_values} argument when creating the -\class {FieldStorage} instance. +a true value for the the optional \var{keep_blank_values} keyword +parameter when creating the \class{FieldStorage} instance. For instance, the following code (which assumes that the -\code{Content-Type} header and blank line have already been printed) -checks that the fields \code{name} and \code{addr} are both set to a -non-empty string: +\mailheader{Content-Type} header and blank line have already been +printed) checks that the fields \code{name} and \code{addr} are both +set to a non-empty string: \begin{verbatim} form = cgi.FieldStorage() @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Here the fields, accessed through \samp{form[\var{key}]}, are themselves instances of \class{FieldStorage} (or \class{MiniFieldStorage}, depending on the form encoding). The \member{value} attribute of the instance yields the string value -of the field. The \function{getvalue()} method returns this string value +of the field. The \method{getvalue()} method returns this string value directly; it also accepts an optional second argument as a default to return if the requested key is not present. @@ -112,15 +112,17 @@ name, the object retrieved by \samp{form[\var{key}]} is not a instance but a list of such instances. Similarly, in this situation, \samp{form.getvalue(\var{key})} would return a list of strings. If you expect this possibility -(when your HTML form contains multiple fields with the same -name), use the \function{type()} function to determine whether you -have a single instance or a list of instances. For example, here's -code that concatenates any number of username fields, separated by +(when your HTML form contains multiple fields with the same name), use +the \function{type()} built-in function to determine whether you +have a single instance or a list of instances. For example, this +code concatenates any number of username fields, separated by commas: \begin{verbatim} +ListType = type([]) + value = form.getvalue("username", "") -if type(value) is type([]): +if isinstance(value, ListType): # Multiple username fields specified usernames = ",".join(value) else: @@ -237,7 +239,7 @@ exception. Parse input of type \mimetype{multipart/form-data} (for file uploads). Arguments are \var{fp} for the input file and \var{pdict} for a dictionary containing other parameters in -the \code{Content-Type} header. +the \mailheader{Content-Type} header. Returns a dictionary just like \function{parse_qs()} keys are the field names, each value is a list of values for that field. This is @@ -250,7 +252,7 @@ Note that this does not parse nested multipart parts --- use \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{parse_header}{string} -Parse a MIME header (such as \code{Content-Type}) into a main +Parse a MIME header (such as \mailheader{Content-Type}) into a main value and a dictionary of parameters. \end{funcdesc} @@ -282,9 +284,12 @@ Convert the characters \character{\&}, \character{<} and \character{>} in string \var{s} to HTML-safe sequences. Use this if you need to display text that might contain such characters in HTML. If the optional flag \var{quote} is -true, the double quote character (\character{"}) is also translated; +true, the double-quote character (\character{"}) is also translated; this helps for inclusion in an HTML attribute value, as in \code{<A -HREF="...">}. +HREF="...">}. If the value to be qouted might include single- or +double-quote characters, or both, consider using the +\function{quoteattr()} function in the \refmodule{xml.sax.saxutils} +module instead. \end{funcdesc} |