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| -rwxr-xr-x | Lib/cgi.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ # # modified by Steve Majewski <sdm7g@Virginia.EDU> 12/5/94 # +# now maintained as part of the Python distribution # Several classes to parse the name/value pairs that are passed to # a server's CGI by GET, POST or PUT methods by a WWW FORM. This @@ -42,11 +43,17 @@ from os import environ def parse(): + """Parse the query passed in the environment or on stdin""" if environ['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST': qs = sys.stdin.read(string.atoi(environ['CONTENT_LENGTH'])) environ['QUERY_STRING'] = qs else: qs = environ['QUERY_STRING'] + return parse_qs(qs) + + +def parse_qs(qs): + """Parse a query given as a string argument""" name_value_pairs = string.splitfields(qs, '&') dict = {} for name_value in name_value_pairs: |